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by simulo 1102 days ago
David Graeber on "Tyranny of Structurelessness": "[Many] completely misread Freeman’s essay, and interpret it not as a plea for formal mechanisms to ensure equality, but as a plea for more transparent hierarchy."
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It is his interpretation presented as if it were an objective truth.

As far as I read the essay, Jo Freeman advocates both equality and transparency. In particular, she makes strong points that equality is impossible without transparency.

That's a more controversial and interesting take than "an informal structure in an organisation is not necessarily better than a formal one".