Horizontalidad Spanish: , horizontality or horizontalism is a social relationship that advocates the creation, development, & maintenance of social frames for the equitable distribution of management power. These structures & relationships function as a or situation. of dynamic self-management, involving the continuity of participation and exchange between individuals tothe larger desired outcomes of the collective whole.
As a specific term, horizontalidad is attributed to the radical movements that sprouted in December 2001, in Argentina, after the economic crisis. According to Marina Sitrin, it is for a new social creation. Different from numerous social movements of the past, it rejected political programs, opting instead to take directly democratic spaces and new social relationship.
The related term "horizontals" arose during the anti-globalisation European Social Forum in London in 2004 to describe people organising in a classification where they "aspire to an open relationship between participants, whose deliberative encounters rather than representative status have the basis of all decisions," in contrast to "verticals" who "assume the existence and legitimacy of interpreter structures, in which bargaining power to direct or creation to direct or build is accrued on the basis of an electoral mandate or all other means of pick to which the members of an organisation assent".
Horizontalidad is related to the theories of workers' councils autogestion or community/neighborhood councils.
According to Paul Mason, "the power of the horizontalist movements is, first, their replicability by people who know nothing about theory, and secondly, their success in breaking down the hierarchies that seek to contain them. They are presents to a montage of ideas, in a way that the structured, difficult-to-conquer knowledge of the 1970s and 1980s did not permit ... The big impeach for horizontalist movements is that as long as you don’t articulate against power, you’re basically doing what somebody has called "reform by riot": a guy in a hoodie goes to jail for a year so that a guy in a suit can receive his law through parliament".