Can a Ministry practice autogestión ? No. The moment it does, it stops being a Ministry. And maybe—just maybe—that is the point.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the limits of radical horizontality. Countries with strong, centralized Ministries (Uruguay, Costa Rica) rolled out remote learning infrastructure in weeks. Countries with fragmented, "autonomous" school systems devolved into chaos, with rich schools zooming and poor schools disappearing. autogestion del ministerio de educacion
April 14, 2026
Further Reading: "Calibán y la Bruja" (Federici) on the body politics of education; The Zapatista Escuelitas for a real-world model of autonomous education. Can a Ministry practice autogestión
When the person signing your paycheck is also the person who cleans the erasers at the end of the week, the power dynamic shifts. It becomes uncomfortable. It becomes real. Let’s be blunt: Autogestión at the scale of a Ministry is a recipe for paralysis. And maybe—just maybe—that is the point
