tl;dr: in the 70s feminist groups started organizing but they did not want to reproduce typical hierarchical structures. So many opted for "structurlessness" which led to implicit structures that the author claim were at least as oppressive as explicit ones.
It is possible to have an enjoyable flat organization and oppressive hierarchies are avoidable. But if you want to have a different kind of hierarchy, understand the organizational needs of your group, the balance of inherent powers within it, and create a hierarchy designed by taking all this into account, because otherwise these things will organize spontaneously anyway.
THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS : https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
tl;dr: in the 70s feminist groups started organizing but they did not want to reproduce typical hierarchical structures. So many opted for "structurlessness" which led to implicit structures that the author claim were at least as oppressive as explicit ones.
It is possible to have an enjoyable flat organization and oppressive hierarchies are avoidable. But if you want to have a different kind of hierarchy, understand the organizational needs of your group, the balance of inherent powers within it, and create a hierarchy designed by taking all this into account, because otherwise these things will organize spontaneously anyway.