[meri_dian]

"MIT is likely concerned with increasing its power. Thus is part of the establishment. Doing lots of great things, but part of the establishment."

Almost all organized groups exist in order to increase their power/influence. Those who try to destroy centers of power without either redistributing power or accumulating it for themselves are destroyers, nothing more.

[erikpukinskis]

Isn’t redistributing power different from increasing ones own power though?

My goal is to redistribute power from people of my “kind” to people in my geography, roughly evenly. I think that’s fundamentally different from “increasing my own power” although I do admit it’s not wholly different.

I think your statement is just too reductive. There are corporations, federations, partnerships, syndicates, all of these organizations have vastly different power centralization properties.