ngl one of the things the left, especially The Online Left needs most is like, tasking.
so many orgs are incredibly bad at assigning/parting out/letting people choose work that suits the skills of people, like how people who couldn't walk very far were assigned canvassing tasks even as the coordinating structure struggled with basic excel spreadsheets or information documents that all of us had the skills for
and its just such a hillarious squandering of labor by looking at people's skillsets and limitations and going 'actually, we wanted an interchangable part'. from people who rant about the PMC and how starbucks workers are part of it, we bring you: Taylorism, The Thing They Actually Hate, But Keep Applying
This (org leadership allocating work in an ass-backwards way) is yet another way to never actually build organisational capacity โ and it extends beyond just the "who's going to do what?" scale. It includes the strategic and tactical priorities of an org. While learning from past successes is obviously critical, there's also the issue of shaping the org's work to actually fit the capabilities and skills of its existing membership well.
It's not enough to observe that, for example, the student strikes in (region) in (recent historical era) were an impressive show of force by progressive youth. You need to figure out whether that's even appropriate to impose that tactical model on chapters of your org that overwhelmingly consist of people who aren't post-secondary students.
Yes. Political discipline means doing stuff you don't exactly want to do, sometimes. However, it doesn't require trying to ram square pegs into round holes.
