That doesn't contradict what I said. I didn't say, "don't learn from other orgs" lol.

If you don't consider different goals and allies, as I mentioned, you'll end up with counterproductive strategies. For example, attempting to emulate an org that only "succeeded" because of a US bombing campaign is an unscientific approach, you'd be missing the obvious alternative hypothesis. If you try to run your org as if the bourgeois media apparatus will do your work for you, for example, you'll be quickly scratching your head about why your propaganda isn't reaching people like these others said it would. Similarly, if you try to organize like student groups that only ever achieved some protests and then petered out, don't be surprised when you fail to retain members. In all of these cases, a skeptical approach should have been taken to either rule the strategy out (your org cannot rely on friendly treatment from bourgeois media and military) or to be hyper-aware of its historical limitations so that you can change course if you see the same thing developing. Or, at least weigh the likely downsides when making a decision.

In my experience, Western orgs often fail at all of this because they simply aren't asking the right basic questions or allowing themselves to avoid harmful dogmas. The foundations of good organizing isn't a set of tactics, which people tend to focus on, but a healthy process that discovers, wields, and discards them relative to their conditions. Ask yourselves what your goals are. Ask yourselves how you'll develop your hypotheses (usually reading or gathering info from a community). Ask yourselves how you'll know whether a hypothesis is wrong and you should change either tactics or strategy. Figure out how to do this without alienating each other, because people will get attached to failed strategies. Free yourselves to reject core strategy tools that were extremely valuable in other conditions but that limit you now - e.g. demcent is often adhered to solely due to its efficacy under conditions that do not apply to your imperial core city, and actually prevents a given org from experimenting to identify how you'll build your base in these conditions. If it's not having the desired effect, jettison it. Make a front group that experiments with not using it for a domain for a few years. See if the experiment fails. It might! Maybe Demcent is appropriate under the conditions for your org. If you ask the question of how you'll measure failure at the beginning, you'll find it easier to make these decisions later and it won't be a surprise if the experiment is ended.

Anyways feel free to do whatever you'd like.