Worth reading &quot;The Tyranny of Structurelessness&quot;. It&#x27;s from the 70s and is specifically about the women&#x27;s movement, but is applicable to these kinds of discussions.<p>Whenever you have a flat hierarchy, informal structures will arise in place of explicit ones.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jofreeman.com&#x2F;joreen&#x2F;tyranny.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jofreeman.com&#x2F;joreen&#x2F;tyranny.htm</a><p>&quot;A &quot;laissez faire&quot; group is about as realistic as a &quot;laissez faire&quot; society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can be so easily established because the idea of &quot;structurelessness&quot; does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones.&quot;