- Date
- 15. October 2026
- Time
- 21:00 CET
- Place
- link sent with the invitation
- For
- Members working on the directives and newcomers.
- Agenda
- 2 objectives · 80 min
- Status
- In preparation
The meeting has two objectives. Each has a fixed time box. Whatever is not decided within its time box moves to a written proposal, following the stuck decision protocol on the
Tactics
The
strategies
Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 Two ideas from the doctrine shape everything below. First, planning is recursive, not linear: what we learn in a later step regularly sends us back to an earlier one. Second, a plan starts from the situation as it is, not as we would like it to be: contentious issues are not assumed away. Strategy starts with an honest look at where the left stands. Left organizations put strong commitment and countless hours into the struggle, yet their impact stays small, few members stay active for long, and groups with similar goals work side by side without coordinating. No organization acts in a vacuum: each is one part of a system of people, groups, places and resources that all affect each other. Limited time and energy have to be aimed somewhere, and the most useful question is not what could we do? but what matters most in this system? To answer it, we use a simplified version of the Vulnerability Assessment Method (Schnaubelt et al., 2014 It works in three steps: first find out who and what is out there, then work out how they are connected, and finally decide what matters most. Every environment can be broken down into six domains, known as PMESII: political, military (for us: security), economic, social, infrastructure and information. To find the actors and resources in each, the method crosses these domains with six practical categories, known as ASCOPE: the areas where things happen, the structures (buildings and facilities), the capabilities actors have, the organizations involved, the key people, and the events that change the situation. Each cell asks a concrete question, for example: which buildings matter economically? Which events shape the social life of a neighbourhood? The table below is an example for a mid-sized city. Every local group should fill in its own: the empty cells are often the most revealing. A list of actors is not yet a system. The second step takes the most important entries from the inventory and asks how they are connected: who depends on whom, who supports or works against whom. The map below follows the systems view used in joint planning doctrine. Its subject is not our collective but the organized left as a whole: local groups, national networks, unions and electoral efforts alike, each fighting on its own front. It sits in the middle, surrounded by the six PMESII domains from step 1. The dots are nodes (the actors and resources found there) and the lines are links between them. The thick links are the ones the left relies on most. Our collective appears on the map too, as one supportive actor among many in the information domain. We provide tools, workshops and mentoring from the outside; we are no platform or party, take part in no decisions and coordinate nothing ourselves. Not every actor is on the left’s side. Following the method, we describe actors by their behaviour rather than by fixed labels: supportive, neutral or hostile. Hostile actors have a dashed red outline. Actors move along this spectrum over time, and good work can move them towards the supportive end. With the system mapped, the last step asks what in it matters most. The chain under the map is the core of the method. It reads from top to bottom: Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027. Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us. Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months. Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there. Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028. Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator. Most effort goes into what is most visible, which is rarely what matters most. The method makes the choice explicit: protect the left’s vulnerabilities, build on its strengths, and act where the system is weakest. That is exactly how our goals are set: not as targets for our collective, but as the support the left needs most. Each critical vulnerability names the goal that addresses it: members’ time and decision making (G2), scattered know-how (G1) and the missing shared language for goals (G3). This is a starting point, not a finished picture. The value of the method lies in doing it together and repeating it as things change: a centre of gravity that was right last year may not be right today. Knowing where we stand and where we want to go is not enough: we also have to name what stands in between. Joint planning doctrine treats this as a step of its own (United States Government US Army, 2020 The second rule is to describe the tension between the current and the desired conditions: what has to change, and in which direction. Each gap names the goal that closes it. Finally, everything is summed up in one problem statement: a short answer to the question what’s going on here? It is a working hypothesis, not a verdict, and it is revisited as we learn more. With the problem defined, the remaining question is how to address it. A line of effort connects what we do day to day with where we want to end up. Read each line from left to right: every sub-goal builds on the ones before it, and together they establish the end state on the right. The badge there (G1, G2, …) links to the
goal
Ongoing. First open-access toolkit release by the end of 2027. Organizations maintain, adapt and extend the toolkit themselves, without needing us. Per collaboration, reviewed together with the organization after 12 months. Retention and workload reach levels the organization itself defines as healthy, and stay there. Long-term. First cross-organization pilot in 2028. Organizations coordinate with each other directly and routinely, without needing us as a mediator. Most of what organizers need already exists, scattered across
organizational research, systems science and the history of the
movement. This line turns it into exercises and protocols a group
can pick up without reading the literature first. Every exercise is field-tested with at least one partner organization
before it is published, and the toolkit stays modular: groups adopt
one piece at a time, in the order that fits their situation. This line runs once per partner organization. It starts with
listening: the organization names its own problems, and we measure
a baseline together so that progress can be shown rather than assumed. We never take part in decisions or votes. Members choose which changes
to adopt; we support with materials, mentoring and an outside view.
See the
FAQ
Trying new approaches and adapting ideas from other fields naturally brings questions, misunderstandings, and early skepticism. We have put together our positions on the key criticisms and inquiries we hear most often. If you still have questions after reading, feel free to contact us\!
## Who We … Groups on the left often share more goals than their labels suggest.
Once goals are written down in a shared, comparable format,
overlaps become visible and groups can coordinate directly. We go first by publishing our own goals, then help others do the same.
The line ends with us stepping back: success means nobody needs a
mediator, us included. The sub-goals along each line are what the method calls decisive points: steps that, once reached, give a clear advantage and bring the end state measurably closer. Their order is a plan, not a law. No plan survives contact with reality unchanged. Joint planning doctrine therefore treats assessment not as a final step but as a continuous activity that runs alongside the plan and feeds back into every other step (United States Government US Army, 2020 Are we doing things right? Did we do what we said we would? These track our own actions. Are we doing the right things? Is it changing anything? These track conditions in the environment. Assessment asks two different questions, and both matter. Ticking off sub-goals shows that we are busy; only the goals’ metrics show whether anything is changing. Adjustments range from reordering a few sub-goals to a completely new approach, when the problem itself turns out to be different from what we thought. That is the loop back to the start of this page: understand the environment again, and redefine the problem if necessary. Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., & Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. They draw on the same two sources as the strategies: joint planning doctrine (United States Government US Army, 2020 Joint planning doctrine connects the largest aims to the smallest actions in a single chain: an end state is reached through objectives, objectives through effects, and effects through tasks. The step people most often skip is the effect: the condition an action should create. Without it, tasks turn into busywork: a meeting, a flyer, a demonstration, done because it is what one does, not because it changes anything. The doctrine also asks for undesired effects: conditions our own actions might create that would work against the goal. A faster meeting that shuts out members who struggle with written proposals has saved time and lost people. Here is one chain from our goals down to tasks: There is almost always more than one way to reach a sub-goal. The doctrine’s advice is simple: develop more than one option, then test each one before committing time to it. An option that fails any of these five tests is dropped: Does it reach the sub-goal? Does it create the desired effect, fit the intent, and take the centre of gravity — our people — into account? Can we actually do it? With the people, time, money and skills we really have, not the ones we wish we had. Is it worth the cost? Do the expected results justify the time, energy and risk? Does it respect our principles and the law? Is it really a different option? Two versions of the same idea are not a choice. Options should differ in what they focus on or how they work. Who, what, where, when, how, why? Does it name the effects, tasks, people, timeline, and how we will know it worked? The tests are only as good as our imagination of what will happen. That is why the doctrine wargames every option. In its simplest form this is a conversation, not a game: we describe the action, the probable reaction, and our counteraction, and look for the point where the plan breaks. Half an hour of wargaming before a campaign is cheap; finding the weak point in the middle of it is not. Once an option is chosen, someone has to carry it out, usually not the people who planned it. The Vulnerability Assessment Method recommends mission orders: short, simple briefs that state the mission, the intent, and the five Ws (who, what, when, where, why). The most important part is the intent: its purpose, the end state it should reach, and the risk we accept. Joint planning doctrine is explicit about why: a clear intent lets people act without further orders, even when things do not go as planned. This is the opposite of micromanagement. People who know why a task matters can adapt it on the spot; people who only know what to do must ask, or wait. A brief for one of the tactics below looks like this: From the next general meeting on, the coordination group runs every meeting in 45 minutes, so that members spend their time on action instead of discussion. Meetings held within 45 minutes; agenda sent 48 hours ahead. Meeting hours per decision; members' own rating of their workload. Not everything can be planned, but a lot can be prepared. In the
FAQ
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About Us
We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because
an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling
. We take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks,
we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice.
Because we know we don’t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages. If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together! We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations. The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective. We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working. That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion. There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example.
Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs. While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the
theoretical frameworks
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our
core principles
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”. We organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details. We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like
Dialectical Systems
,
CIBCOM
,
New-Comm
, and journals like
Marxism and Sciences
or
Cosmonaut Magazine
. Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see
projects
Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone’s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long. Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our
tooling overview
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! No. We have no interest in founding the one big, powerful party. Our goal is to share our knowledge and equip organizers with the tools needed to advance class struggle. See
About Us
We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because
an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling
. We take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks,
we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice.
Because we know we don’t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages. If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together! We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations. The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective. We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working. That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion. There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example.
Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs. While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the
theoretical frameworks
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our
core principles
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”. We organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details. We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like
Dialectical Systems
,
CIBCOM
,
New-Comm
, and journals like
Marxism and Sciences
or
Cosmonaut Magazine
. Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see
projects
Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone’s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long. Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our
tooling overview
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Opportunism has several interpretations. Here an answer to each of them: We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because
an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling
. We take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks,
we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice.
Because we know we don’t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages. If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together! We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations. The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective. We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working. That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion. There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example.
Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs. While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the
theoretical frameworks
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our
core principles
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”. We organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details. We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like
Dialectical Systems
,
CIBCOM
,
New-Comm
, and journals like
Marxism and Sciences
or
Cosmonaut Magazine
. Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see
projects
Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone’s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long. Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our
tooling overview
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because
an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling
. We take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks,
we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice.
Because we know we don’t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages. If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together! We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations. The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective. We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working. That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion. There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example.
Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs. While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the
theoretical frameworks
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our
core principles
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”. We organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details. We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like
Dialectical Systems
,
CIBCOM
,
New-Comm
, and journals like
Marxism and Sciences
or
Cosmonaut Magazine
. Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see
projects
Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone’s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long. Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our
tooling overview
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! We build directly on the foundation laid by past revolutionaries. Using their work as a starting point, we reframe historical strategies for current material and socio-economic conditions and combine them with recent literature. We hope to contribute clear, applicable resources that organizers can actually use. We reject theory for its own sake, valuing ideas only when they are accessible and actionable on the ground. Read more about our theoretical considerations [HERE] or our stance on past socialist projects
here
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … Empirical research and historical materialism complement each other. Both methodologies ground themselves in the material world, rejecting speculation and idealism. While historical materialism focuses on historical patterns, society, and how humans transform reality to survive, empirical research has a wider focus. In particular, we draw on complex systems science (see
About Us
We are a collective dedicated to expanding current methodologies and researching new forms of class struggle (see GOALS). To that end, we develop practical tools, structures, and strategies for both groups and individuals. We are fully committed to building a healthier, compassionate, ecologically viable, and rational society and reject reformism in any form. A guiding principle of our collective is that observable practice matters more than declared intent. Because
an organization proves its value through how it operates, not how it describes itself, we dedicate our work to building applied, actionable tooling
. We take a scientifically informed, practice-oriented approach. Beyond developing strategic frameworks,
we actively share our findings through workshops, partnerships, and open-access materials (work in progress). What matters to us is what actually works in practice.
Because we know we don’t have every answer we are constantly refining and developing our materials through application and research. We focus on the concrete problems of the organizations that contact us, helping them put solutions into action. We share our knowledge openly in several languages. If your organization is serious about building a cooperative, liberated, society based on solidarity get in touch. We provide free consulting, training, workshops, and practical materials. We also offer mentorships. That is working alongside members of organizations for knowledge transfer. Let’s collaborate and forge the tools we need to dismantle capital together! We are not a political platform, we do not coordinate political action across different organizations. We are also not a political party. We hope to offer the means that organizations can start organizing and coordinating between each other without a mediator. Again, we enable individuals or their organizations. The origins of this collective date back to 2023. A chance meeting of two heterogeneous leftists. A vague accumulation of shared questions, views, frustrations and notions would shortly after begin to coalesce into a mostly coherent whole of theory and practice, into this collective. We were disheartened and perplexed by how little impact left organizations are having, despite strong commitment and uncountable hours. There is also a high overturn. Few members would stay active for long, turned away by lack of success or lack of energy. A lot of effort for flimsy gains, if even. We also observed that this lack of effectiveness was evenly spread across all “flavours” of class struggle. No particular way of translating that struggle into action seemed at fault either… or all at once in their own ways. What was clear to us is that the current ways aren’t working. That is why we wanted to take a step back and first concentrate on matters of the organizations themselves. What makes any organization successful? How must people organize in which situations? Are current leftist organizations organizing to effectively adapt to their current contexts? What does it mean to be “adapted” as an organization? We set out to draw from every source of information we could think of, be it past or current socialist experiments or scientific literature. We feel it necessary to commensurate all types of insights to move class struggle methodologies forward. We are aware that some might find the use of empirical research “positivist”. We think that we must remain practical. We must consider whatever advances our cause, provided we do not ignore its methodological or epistemological flaws. See our LINKTOSECTION section for a deeper discussion. There is a vast corpus of scientific literature that studies humans and the organizations they form. We identified and incorporated what we think is useful. Specifically, practices in business and industry can be repurposed for our needs. For decades those profit-seeking institutions have improved on techniques that streamline information flow and exchange. Many are still plagued by too many meetings of course, but some improvements have been made. Also, many studies have been conducted to determine which organizational form is best depending on the external pressures. Contingency Theory is the main example.
Part of our work consists in interpreting those findings in light of the academic, reductionist contexts that produced the research as well as the mostly business-oriented organizational focus. That means, we are carefully translating and re-purposing those findings to our particular needs. While trawling through classical organizational research, we took note of very promising literature that was more in line with our non-reductionist views than the business-oriented material we worked with up to date. Frankly, we were blown away by the volumes of non-reductionist, systemic literature. See the
theoretical frameworks
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. At this point, it might be of relevance to clarify our stance on past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors. We have written about that aspect in our
core principles
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … So, over the span of way too many coffees or other had-to-be-haves we were ready to convince ourselves that we had drafted the outlines of a coherent framework of systemic, holistic class struggle methodology, which we coined “Embodied Dialectics”. We organized content along two spheres of knowledge: practical and theoretical. We are developing them simultaneously. For every practical component, we ask questions like “What effect does it have on the organization? How is information flow facilitated?”. We aim to build a catalogue or repository of practical exercises, see GAST and LINK for more details. To systematically capture the effects of the exercises, we build a theoretical model of organizations. See LINK for more details. We understand that our endeavour has roughly the size and shape of a small research programme. That is when we stopped trying to do this all on our own and decided to first clearly flesh out this project and put it out there. We figured that outside perspectives and collaborations are essential to develop and mature our ideas. We drew inspiration from the collaborative model of collectives like
Dialectical Systems
,
CIBCOM
,
New-Comm
, and journals like
Marxism and Sciences
or
Cosmonaut Magazine
. Independent researchers sharing ideas is valuable, but where those efforts remain largely academic or theoretical, we focus on practical application. Our primary focus is empowering organizations, though we welcome partnerships with academic actors to refine theoretical foundations (see
projects
Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Our vision is a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left. We want to see a coalition of effective movements that can integrate complementary strategies for building real alternatives, and create a society that fulfills everyone’s needs. Our work specifically addresses the systemicity of this challenge: how revolutionary organizations and networks can optimize their internal structures and inter-group communication/coordination. By providing these operational frameworks, we aim to contribute to overcoming the paralysis that has hindered the broader left for too long. Systemic thinking benefits from many different perspectives and interdisciplinarity. If anything on this website resonates with you, we invite you to reach out. Unsure how you might fit in? Review our
tooling overview
How we work: our tools, structures, workflows, and the core principles that guide our collaboration.
# Way of Work
## Organized to Respect Our Time
Everyone has different skill sets and capacities. We all juggle responsibilities, like childcare, regular employment, and the need for rest. When … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! Work in progress. The project descriptions are mock-ups. Do not take seriously! No, our framework is only as complex as effective class struggle demands. We reject the idea that meaningful resistance can happen without clear strategy, tactics, and goals. The current underperformance and low impact of the revolutionary left proves the failure of oversimplified, unstructured approaches. While grasping the full GAST framework all at once can be difficult without hands-on context, its strength lies in its modularity. Groups can implement its exercises and procedures bit by bit, mastering and benefiting from individual components before taking the next step. This helps in not being overwhelmed by the whole framework at once. The revolutionary left is currently divided across various organizational structures and strategic and tactical approaches. This fragmentation is our starting point. We recognize that different organizations fight from their own standpoints, doing their best even when disagreement arises. After analyzing numerous manifestos, publications, and digital platforms across various camps, we find that most organizations share similar overarching goals. They simply disagree on timing, tactics, strategies or methods. We believe that multiple organizations pursuing shared goals via different avenues is a strategic necessity. This approach aligns with the complex, systemic, and interconnected nature of our socio-economic and political reality. One-size-fits-all solutions are rarely effective. One group may focus on local community organizing, another on national networks, and another on electoral engagement. All are working toward similar outcomes. At this stage of class struggle, a diversified left that clearly articulates its goals and fights across multiple fronts is an essential precursor to a unified front. For a cohesive movement to emerge, a new, effective culture of practice must take root. See GAST LINK for more information on how we attempt to structure all that information in an easy to understand format. Our goal in any collaboration is to share our knowledge and concepts with organizations so they can implement them through deep understanding. For this reason, partner organizations must first identify their specific needs. From there, a process begins where the organization evaluates how it wants to adapt and what it aims to implement. We listen, observe, and step into a supporting role. We never impose or force our knowledge on anyone, focusing instead on finding pragmatic solutions. Real transformation must occur organically, driving a shift in mindset across selected areas of the organization. In return, we benefit from the shared experience and the success of seeing organizations let go of outdated practices that no longer serve their progress. We ask for an authentic and honest practice where organizations and organizers commit to building a better world and actively work toward it, both internally and externally. To build trust, we would humbly ask to be able to showcase our collaboration openly on our website and social media. We hope that this might encourage or motivate other organization to participate as well. A protocol packages these into a simple form: if this happens, decide by then, then do this, and branch here if needed. Protocols take pressure off exactly when pressure is highest. Nobody has to invent a response at midnight, and the group’s energy goes into acting, not arguing. Protocols are written by the group that uses them, and they are revised after every real use. The catalogue collects the tactics we develop and test with partner organizations. Each one serves a sub-goal on the
lines of effort
Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step.
## How we plan
Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning … Clear lines of effort that guide our collective towards our goals. Each line serves one goal and breaks it down into sub-goals we can work through, step by step.
## How we plan
Good intentions are not a plan. To get from commitment to lasting effect, we borrow the planning logic of joint planning … Like every part of the framework, the tactics are modular. A group can start with a single card, such as the 45-minute meeting or the after-action review, and take the next step once it works. Experience is written down and shared instead of leaving with the people who made it. A good practice can be repeated by people who never saw it in action. Turnover becomes visible, so progress can be shown rather than assumed. The group agrees on what it wants to change, in measurable terms. Decisions take less meeting time; information moves to writing. No role depends on a single person; burnout of one doesn't stop the work. Goals become comparable across groups, so overlaps can be seen. Groups see where they want the same thing and can coordinate directly. Tactics are where the assessment loop from the strategies becomes concrete. After each use, the after-action review (T1.1) asks whether we did what we said we would, and whether it had the effect we wanted. A tactic that is used but changes nothing is dropped or rewritten. A tactic that works is written up as an exercise card (T1.2), tested by another group, and added to the open toolkit. That is how a group’s own experience becomes shared know-how, and how the catalogue grows. Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., & Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center. United States Government US Army. (2020). Joint Planning (Joint Publication 5-0). Joint Operations. How we structure meetings so that every meeting is worth everyone's time.
Meetings are moments when things are **discussed, understood and planned**. A meeting brings participants to the same information about a selection of topics. Discussion builds **shared mental models** of them. Once everyone …Tactics
Strategies
How we plan#
Understanding the operational environment#
Step 1: Taking stock — who and what is out there#
P
Political
M
Security
E
Economic
S
Social
I
Infrastructure
I
Information
Step 2: Relating the actors — the system#
Strengths to build on
Step 3: From the system to the critical factors#
Goals
Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing.
1. Timeframe
2. Metrics
3. Stopping criteria
Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with.
1. Timeframe
2. Metrics
3. Stopping criteria
Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left.
1. Timeframe
2. Metrics
3. Stopping criteria
Defining the problem#
Symptoms what we see
Root causes what produces it
The left does not lack commitment; it lacks the means to turn commitment into lasting effect. Without clearly defined, comparable goals and a shared culture of practice, its active organizers — its centre of gravity — spend their limited time in long meetings, relearn what others already know, and work beside groups with similar goals without coordinating. Energy drains faster than it is replenished. The tension is not only with opponents outside: the left’s own ways of organizing wear down the people it depends on.
Lines of effort#
Goals
Equip left organizations with a practical, open toolkit for effective organizing.
1. Timeframe
2. Metrics
3. Stopping criteria
Reduce burnout and member turnover in the organizations we work with.
1. Timeframe
2. Metrics
3. Stopping criteria
Enable a diverse but coordinated, self-organized left.
1. Timeframe
2. Metrics
3. Stopping criteria
LOE 1
Open toolkit
LOE 2
Sustainable organizations
Frequent Criticisms and Questions
LOE 3
Coordinated left
Assessing and adapting#
Measures of performance
Measures of effectiveness
Time to rethink the approach when…
References
From goals to tasks#
Choosing how: options and tests#
Suitable
Feasible
Acceptable
Distinguishable
Complete
Briefing a task#
The 45-minute meeting
SG2.4Mission
Intent
The five Ws
Measure of performance
Measure of effectiveness
Prepared spontaneity: protocols#
Frequent Criticisms and Questions
Who We Are and What We Want#
About
Who we are#
What we offer#
Who we are NOT#
Where we come from#
This ain’t working…#
We focused on the how, not the what.#
Vast seas of knowledge.#
Systems science for the win!#
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Working Methods and Communication
It seemed promising enough.#
So much work, so little time.#
Lines of Effort
Where we want to go#
Help is welcome!#
Working Methods and Communication
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Lines of Effort
What is this page? What are you doing?
What does 'Embodied Dialectics' mean? Why did you choose this name?
You presume to show others how it's done. What entitles you to that position?
Is this collective purely marxist-leninist? Do you impose that kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure?
Are you trying to found a political party?
About
Who we are#
What we offer#
Who we are NOT#
Where we come from#
This ain’t working…#
We focused on the how, not the what.#
Vast seas of knowledge.#
Systems science for the win!#
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Working Methods and Communication
It seemed promising enough.#
So much work, so little time.#
Lines of Effort
Where we want to go#
Help is welcome!#
Working Methods and Communication
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Lines of Effort
Are you not just opportunists?
About
Who we are#
What we offer#
Who we are NOT#
Where we come from#
This ain’t working…#
We focused on the how, not the what.#
Vast seas of knowledge.#
Systems science for the win!#
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Working Methods and Communication
It seemed promising enough.#
So much work, so little time.#
Lines of Effort
Where we want to go#
Help is welcome!#
Working Methods and Communication
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Lines of Effort
About
Who we are#
What we offer#
Who we are NOT#
Where we come from#
This ain’t working…#
We focused on the how, not the what.#
Vast seas of knowledge.#
Systems science for the win!#
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Working Methods and Communication
It seemed promising enough.#
So much work, so little time.#
Lines of Effort
Where we want to go#
Help is welcome!#
Working Methods and Communication
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Lines of Effort
Theory and Science#
“Everything we need has already been written by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nothing new is required.” What is your supposed novel contribution to class struggle?
Working Methods and Communication
Only Historical Materialism is required to fight capital. Does the inclusion of scientific literature not just prove you are positivists?
About
Who we are#
What we offer#
Who we are NOT#
Where we come from#
This ain’t working…#
We focused on the how, not the what.#
Vast seas of knowledge.#
Systems science for the win!#
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Working Methods and Communication
It seemed promising enough.#
So much work, so little time.#
Lines of Effort
Where we want to go#
Help is welcome!#
Working Methods and Communication
Theoretical Frameworks
Lore Ipsum#
Lore Ipsum#
Lines of Effort
Lines of Effort
Our Methodology in Practice#
Is all this not way too complicated?
Does all that methodology not suck out spontaneity?
Where are the emotions? Where is the fight?
Our Place in the Revolutionary Left#
You say that your collective focuses more on what an organization does, not what it proclaims to be doing. What does that mean? Should an organization not advertise its views?
What do you mean by “diverse ecosystem of a revolutionary left”?
“You cannot work with every branch of the revolutionary left. You need to choose a side.”
Working with Other Organizations#
Do you impose any kind of authoritarian hierarchical structure?
Are you not just practicing entryism? Are you not just trying to infiltrate other organizations?
Regarding participation as a member of this collective#
Do I need to be some kind of programmer or scientist to contribute on the projects?
Regarding collaborations with organizations#
What are the first steps once a collaboration with you begins?
Does it cost anything?
What do you expect in return?
Overload signal
Sudden opportunity
Repression
Stuck decision
The tactics catalogue#
Strategies
Strategies
G1
Open toolkit
After-action review
Exercise card
G2
Sustainable organizations
Retention baseline
Goal workshop
The 45-minute meeting
Role handover
G3
Coordinated left
Goal card
Overlap mapping
Keeping tactics honest#
References
Meetings Protocol
- Welcome and round of introductions20′
- Origins, GST, previous work5′
- The CED and its vision: theory and practice, synthesis.20′
- Questions and discussion15′
- Review current proposals5′
- Decide, or move to a written proposal (stuck-decision protocol)10′
- Topic parking lot and next steps5′
Before the meeting#
Most of the alignment happens in writing, before the meeting. The meeting only takes up what the written discussion could not settle:
Who does what#
Example section. The names below are placeholders until people are assigned.
Materials#
How to take part#
Not everyone needs to attend, and not everyone needs to take part in the same way. Choose the level that fits your time. Each comes with a few minimal requirements, so the meeting works for everyone. There is no pressure: the minutes mean nobody misses anything.
Active participation
You take part in the discussion and in decisions.
- Read the About page, the Goals page and the draft directives beforehand (about 30 minutes).
- Post your questions and comments in #directives before the meeting.
- Attend the whole meeting, with a working microphone.
Passive participation
You listen in and stay informed, without deciding.
- No preparation needed. If you could not prepare, join here, and that is fine.
- Questions in the text chat are welcome and are answered at the end.
- Newcomers can join for the introduction only (first 40 minutes).
Non-participation
You don't attend, but stay in the loop.
- Read the minutes in #directives after the meeting.
References
Ogbeiwi, O. (2017). Why written objectives need to be really SMART. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 23(7), 324–336. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2017.23.7.324
Schnaubelt, C., Larson, E., & Boyer, M. (2014). Vulnerability assessment method pocket guide: a tool for center of gravity analysis. RAND Arroyo Center.