Hey! Some direct responses to your last points:
- Yes, the acknowledgement of emotional intelligence I find super important and I think I could have done a far better job at acknowledging that some anarchist groups do have great practices around this, particularly when their analysis also incorporates a gender (feminist) perspective. A lot of my frustrations with with anarchist spaces actually have to do with how masculinity is performed in that tyranny of structurelessness. Also, “sociocracy and relationship anarchy” could be its whole separate thread, article and presentation!
- On territorial autonomy: this is the bit that I feel most drawn to recently but also the one where I could learn so much more. The exercises that I think about that put this into practice come at it from more of a national and/or communal (I’m thinking indigenous resistance here in Mexico, or the Rojava Revolution in Kurdistan) angle than an explicitly anarchist one, but it’s the type of thing that could be read as anarchist in its core since it is manifestly declared in direct opposition to The State ™.
- What is effectiveness: my short answer is: (at least) in sociocracy, effectiveness is measured in terms of needs being met. That’s why equivalence (voices heard) contributes to effectiveness (instead of being an obstacle or opposite force): hearing voices is a strategy to attempt to put the needs on the table and be more likely to meet them than if we didn’t.