# Especifismo Started reading [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] as [[Especifismo]] is [[node club]] node this week. Sounds really good so far. Seems very adjacent to [[Anarchist Cybernetics]] in it's push towards organisational structures within anarchism. Sounds related to [[Platformism]] too. > born out of nearly 50 years of anarchist experiences in South America > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] ## Three key points - The need for specifically anarchist organization built around a unity of ideas and [[praxis]] - The use of the specifically anarchist organization to theorize and develop strategic political and organizing work. - Active involvement in and building of autonomous and popular social movements, which is described as the process of "[[social insertion]]" What does 'specifically anarchist' actually mean? ## Specifically anarchist > Especifists inherently state their objection to the idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or multiple currents of anarchists loosely united > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] Interesting. What (specifically) is a synthesis organisation? Ah OK - [[Synthesis anarchism]]. > North American anarchists have also offered their experiences of synthesis organization as lacking any cohesiveness due to multiple, contradictory political tendencies > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] > the Especifists criticize these tendencies for being driven by spontaneity and individualism and for not leading to the serious, systematic work needed to build revolutionary movements > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] > A particular stress of the Especifismo praxis is the role of anarchist organization, formed on the basis of shared politics, as a space for the development of common strategy and reflection on the group’s organizing work > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] All sounds a bit like some of the critiques of [[Occupy]] - in that it failed because there was no organisational structure. See e.g. [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]], [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]. > On organization, the Especifists call for a far deeper basis of anarchist organization than the Platform’s “theoretical and tactical unity,” but a strategic program based on analysis that guides the actions of revolutionaries > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] ## Social insertion [[social insertion]]. > Especifismo’s conception of the relation of ideas to the popular movement is that they should not be imposed through a leadership, through “mass line,” or by intellectuals > > – [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]