Interesting find

The architecture of today’s anarchist movement can be described as a decentralized network of communication, coordination and mutual support among autonomous nodes of social struggle.

During a bit of random reading today I happened across the above quote from Uri Gordon’s PhD thesis Anarchism and Political Theory: Contemporary Problems. The thesis has since been made into a book entitled Anarchy Alive!

Replace “anarchist movement” with “Congregational Illuminist movement” and “of social struggle” with “striving towards illumination” and this is an almost word-for-word summary of Free Illuminism, down to the use of the term “nodes”. An interesting syncronicity, but not surprising as one can imagine the vocabulary of many different types of non-hiearchical, anti-authoritarian, decentralized movements might share some equivalent descriptions of basic principles.