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 setting up our tooling, it was important to us that everyone can contribute whenever they have time and seamlessly pick up where they left off. Meetings are held sporadically and only upon request, but we remain flexible in our coordination if other cadences are needed.
Our workflows are specifically chosen to support asynchronous work. We plan to self-host data storage and collaboration tools as our needs grow.
Knowledge Management: We use Zotero to synchronise literature and save annotations. Obsidian is used for importing these annotations, managing and combining knowledge and drafting content (see the codeberg repository below).
Drafting and Publishing: Google Docs or Proton Docs are used for shared editing. LaTeX is used for editing formal publications, whilst Hugo publishes our static website.
Version Control: Codeberg handles code and LaTeX markup versioning, for collaborative reviews before publication.
Internal Communication: Discord serves as our primary hub for exchanges and meetings. We have a Signal fallback channel.
Programming: We use Python or Julia for technical tasks, depending on performance requirements or concrete requirements.
Project Management: Kanban. Currently on Obsidian.
A in-depth description of our documentation and research workflow can be read here:
Core Principles#
Clarity and Accessibility: We express ideas efficiently and commit to translating content into German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish. We rephrase obscure writing for accessibility. We are always open to clarifying text, mathematics and/or code.
Rejection of Dogmatism: Our focus is advancing the class struggle, not claiming intellectual superiority. We learn, iterate and adapt. We consider ourselves fundamentally ignorant and hope in earnest our efforts are helpful.
Rejection of Fethisization/Nostalgia: We firmly believe there is much to learn from past and present socialist, communist and/or anarchist endeavors, both their successes and their failures, and we have a responsibility to take them seriously. However, because these movements emerged from complex circumstances across different historical periods, shaped by highly specific historical and material conditions, their lessons are often extremely hard to transfer or generalize.
Yes, material relationships between economical classes are unaltered, but they articulate in different ways in 2026 than in the 1870s. We observe a tendency among many to nostalgize, fetishize or reenact historical movements such as the Soviet Union, the Paris Commune, Vietnam, Chile, Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Zapatistas, or Yugoslavia. The same can be said about “schools of thought”, such as Maoism, Trotzkism, Titoism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism or other “isms”.
Too often people mistakenly treat them as universal blueprints that can be simply reproduced today. One of the reasons we founded this collective is because we want to be able to give a clear answer to the question: “Ok, but then, what are we supposed to do instead?”.
Independence: Remaining independent allows us to interact with diverse organisations. We enable communication and self-organization from the outside and from the in-between. We see our role in enablement, not leadership.
Cooperation and Development: We exclusively collaborate with revolutionary socialist and/or certain academic organizations and individuals from those contexts. See the Help is Welcome
section.About
Responsible AI Use: We never generate complete texts using Large Language Models. We use them strictly for translation drafts, categorisation of content (grouping annotations of similar content from different sources for example), and grammar improvements (re-writing a too-long gnarly sentence). Original content comes either from sources we have read ourselves with our own annotations and comments or through clearly traceable scientific writing (see our knowledge percolation workflow in Obsidian).
Scientific and Empirical Focus: We synthesize the scientific method with dialectical materialism, integrating (academic) research and other times of knowledge for class struggle. We follow scientific rigour and integrity.
Collaboration#
Our published knowledge will always be accessible to everyone, but work-in-progress materials are restricted to members. We welcome both individuals and organisations, provided that capacities and roles are clearly defined. We provide structured onboarding for new members to ensure they can navigate our tools and work independently.
When collaborating with organisations, we require clear internal communication about our partnership to ensure mutual commitment. In return, we request minimal visual representation, such as displaying the partner’s logo on our website. Our goal is to understand our partners’ structures and contribute to their success by adapting our methods appropriately.
Finally, whilst anyone may initiate contact with us, we require an organisational reference to verify identities and backgrounds. Maintaining operational security and self-protection is essential.
Being a member of this collective vs. collaboration#
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