Quote from Surly Badger (creator of the Fuel Rats) on Anarchy (as he set the Fuel Rats up as an "anarchic collective").
"Well, ‘anarchy’ isn’t chaos — it’s just a lack of formal leadership and hierarchy. We’re self-organizing based on our ‘Doctrine of Individual Excellence’, which basically says that each Fuel Rat is expected to act in a way most consistent with rescuing people and being really, really good at it. We sometimes have people join who think ‘anarchy’ means a lack of responsibility, but that’s almost exactly the opposite of the situation. We expect everyone to figure out what to do and to do their best, so we don’t have leaders or anything like that."