Even if everyone in your group is trying to put the effort in and not a flake, arranging meetings in our modern world is a pain in the fucking ass, especially if you all have day jobs.
But if on top of that you do have one or several people in the group who are flaky, or lazy, or just suck at doing research you’re put in this shitty situation where you either have to nag their ass to work, or just do their work for them. Which then leads to you being tempted to act like a cop and NARC on them to the prof in order to protect your own grade.
The only time I’ve enjoyed group projects is when the prof set aside in class time to work on it, otherwise it’s a shit show, I’ll take writing a paper myself over this shit any day.
I got some really bad news for you about building socialism…
I’m an ML, and believe in Democratic centralism. All group project cadres will have an elected leader who delighted and reviews the work of other. Within the term of that leader the other members will abide by their commands but they will be subject to review at the end of their tenure!