Lenin and Stalin were genuine masters of revolutionary strategy, who knew that without organised terror their goals would never be achieved.
"We want to spend money on things that have been tried and tested and found to be effective and cost-effective," he says, adding that without organised R&D, we don't know if a policy or an intervention works or fits.
We compared breast cancer incidence in areas with and without organised screening.
We used Poisson regression analyses to quantify changes in mortality trends, comparing regions and age groups with and without organised mammography screening and correcting for changes in age distribution.
Various studies described an increase in breast cancer incidence rates in the last two to three decades for both, situations with and without organised mammography screening (Quinn and Allen, 1995; Chu et al, 1996; McCann et al, 1998; Kricker et al, 1999; Paci et al, 2002; Schouten et al, 2002; Botha et al, 2003; Buiatti et al, 2003).
That's where "organising without organisations" reaches its limits: you need to build institutions of power if you're going to confront institutions of power.
The man who designed Ronchamp knew that if you "allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beasts", but he also knew that without an organising principle you cannot create exuberance.
(Anonymous Vienna resident) As an older person I value the ease of visiting cinemas, theatres, shops and the library without driving or organising a taxi.
Indeed, in an unpoliced medico-industry, without the doctors organising themselves and sharing their data, safety questions and adverse effects might go unaddressed (what impact these procedures might have on childbirth, for instance, is still unknown).
