This article sets out to grapple with strategic challenges facing democratic alter-politics in our times, dwelling on the question of leadership to explore ways of overcoming the frailties and risks that beset grassroots collective agency for democratic renewal. Discussion begins thus by fleshing out the notion of contemporary democratic alter-politics which breaks both with top-down statist rule and conventional activism, fostering openness, diversity, assembly-based democracy, attention to process, egalitarianism, prefiguration, work in everyday life along with mass mobilization, and engagement with institutions to effect change. In a second step, the argument brings out the strategic limitations of this alter-politics by engaging with relevant theories and reflections on strategy. The following key part of the article sketches the outlines of a strategy of counter-hegemony that could tackle some of these limitations by reconfiguring democratic leadership. Drawing on recent social movements and organizational studies, critical analysis will seek to indicate how the pursuit of effective leadership can be aligned with the alter-politics of egalitarian collective self-direction to boost and expand it in the political circumstances of the present. The nub of the argument is that ‘another leadership’ that is assembly-based, technopolitical, reflective, distributed, ‘servant’, and feminized can further democratic alter-politics.

本文着手应对我们时代民主变革政治面临的战略挑战，深入探讨领导力问题，探索克服困扰基层集体机构进行民主复兴的弱点和风险的方法。因此，讨论首先充实了当代民主替代政治的概念，该概念打破了自上而下的国家主义统治和传统的激进主义，促进了开放性、多样性、基于集会的民主、对过程的关注、平等主义、预兆、日常生活中的工作。群众动员，并与机构接触以实现变革。在第二步中，该论证通过涉及相关理论和对战略的反思，揭示了这种另类政治的战略局限性。本文的以下关键部分概述了反霸权战略的轮廓，该战略可以通过重新配置民主领导来解决其中的一些局限性。借鉴最近的社会运动和组织研究，批判性分析将寻求表明对有效领导的追求如何与平等主义集体自我导向的另一种政治保持一致，以在当前的政治环境中促进和扩大它。争论的核心是，以议会为基础、技术政治、反思、分布式、“仆人”和女性化的“另一种领导”可以进一步推动民主的改变政治。批判性分析将寻求表明对有效领导的追求如何与平等集体自我导向的另一种政治保持一致，以在当前的政治环境中促进和扩大它。争论的核心是，以议会为基础、技术政治、反思、分布式、“仆人”和女性化的“另一种领导”可以进一步推动民主的改变政治。批判性分析将寻求表明对有效领导的追求如何与平等集体自我导向的另一种政治保持一致，以在当前的政治环境中促进和扩大它。争论的核心是，以议会为基础、技术政治、反思、分布式、“仆人”和女性化的“另一种领导”可以进一步推动民主的改变政治。