Sargon of ACAB

I think they can help in a small way. If you’re only ever meeting people online, you’ll rarely face consequences for poor behavior or see people facing consequences for their behavior.

That being said, finding allies is probably a bigger aspect here. Where I live there’s fairly few of those spaces, especially for non-electoral leftists but that also means the ones we have are always filled with different groups and individuals that might otherwise not have met. This leads to more cooperation and understanding.

This book can’t be recommended enough.

If you’re an experienced activist you’ll probably know a lot of what it says already, but it’ll do so in language that helps you teach it to newer people looking to get involved.

You’ve already gotten good answers so I just wanted to reply that I indeed wasn’t joking.

You can have decentralized planning. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

Decentralization doesn’t mean you can’t have organization, communication or coordination.

What do you think makes it hard to combine planning, decentralization and democracy?

My local anarchist collective has already decided to donate and is currently looking at how we can do additional fundraising.