De-centralized mobilization is a concept on the forefront of revolutionary strategic theory today, across all spectrums of resistance movements; from anarchists and anti-capitalists to indigenous popular movements to the brilliant writing of Abu Mus’ab as-Suri.
Hierarchical leadership structures are obsolete, and they have become obsolete because time and experience has proven their inherent and fatal flaws.
The realization that an open source model is more suitable constitutes one of the most important developments in revolutionary tactical thinking, which has usually been stuck in a repeating cycle whereby each new generation continuously applies futile strategies over and over again, because revolutionary movements have no institutional memory.
Resistance groups always start at zero, without the benefit of long-term experience to inform their strategies, so they keep coming up with the same ideas as those before them.
Those before them cannot generally warn against these strategies because they themselves have either been jailed or killed and their movements crushed.
So the new generation begins from scratch.
Al-Hamdulillah, within the last few years, this began to change, as young rebels took the time and effort to research revolutionary history, and have experimented with a variety of tactical models.
Whoever continues to call for hierarchical group structures reveals his ignorance of this intellectual development, and his laziness to study history.
They are, whether they know it or not, counter-revolutionaries posing as revolutionaries; not necessarily because they oppose the revolution, but because they insist on outdated and ineffective strategies.