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#Horizontalidad

"Horizontalidad, often translated as horizontality or horizontalism, was first used by the movements that emerged in Argentina in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis. It has since been adopted by social movements around the globe, and is used to describe new forms of social relationships that are developing in place of traditional methods of political organizing. Horizontalism encapsulates the shifting visions of justice upon which many of the new global movements are grounded—from Spain, Greece, Bosnia, and Brazil, to the U.S. Occupy movement.

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More than merely a tool for assemblies, horizontalidad is a new way of relating, based in affective politics and mutual empowerment. Though often translated as horizontalism, its translation is at odds with all that 'isms' imply. Rather than an ideology or political program that must be met so as to create a new society or new idea, it is a process. And as it breaks from exclusionary, vertical ways of organizing and relating, it is a break that is simultaneously an opening: in creating new forms of relating, the forms of relating themselves necessarily change the movement participants. Horizontalism as a process is therefore ever-changing, and at its best it forms the base for participatory, engaged democracy."

https://nacla.org/article/definitions-horizontalism-and-autonomy