This lack of structure, Freeman writes, disguised an informal, unacknowledged, and unaccountable leadership, and in this way ensured its malefaction by denying its existence.
[3] As a solution, Freeman suggests formalizing the existing hierarchies in the group and subjecting them to democratic control.
The essay originated as a speech given to the Southern Female Rights Union at a conference in Beulah, Mississippi, in May 1970.
Anarchist Jason McQuinn wrote that organizations with formal structures fare similarly if not worse.
Howard J. Ehrlich discussed the negative impact of the article on anarchist organizing in Reinventing Anarchy, Again.