An Anarchist FAQ - Section J - What do anarchists do?

Posted Sun, 2010-02-14 19:54 by Chuck

Section J - What do anarchists do?

Introduction

J.1 Are anarchists involved in social struggles?

    J.1.1 Why are social struggles important?

    J.1.2 Are anarchists against reforms?

    J.1.3 Why are anarchists against reformism?

    J.1.4 What attitude do anarchists take
    to "single-issue" campaigns?

    J.1.5 Why do anarchists try to generalise
    social struggles?

J.2 What is direct action?

    J.2.1 Why do anarchists favour using direct action
    to change things?

    J.2.2 Why do anarchists reject voting
    as a means for change?

    J.2.3 What are the political implications
    of voting?

    J.2.4 Surely voting for radical parties
    will be effective?

    J.2.5 Why do anarchists support abstentionism
    and what are its implications?

    J.2.6 What are the effects of radicals
    using electioneering?

    J.2.7 Surely we should vote for reformist
    parties in order to show them up for what they are?

    J.2.8 Will abstentionism lead to the
    right winning elections?

    J.2.9 What do anarchists do instead
    of voting?

    J.2.10 Does rejecting electioneering
    mean that anarchists are apolitical?


J.3 What forms of organisation do anarchists build?

    J.3.1 What are affinity groups?

    J.3.2 What are "synthesis" federations?

    J.3.3 What is the "Platform"?

    J.3.4 Why do many anarchists oppose
    the "Platform"?

    J.3.5 Are there other kinds of anarchist
    federation?

    J.3.6 What role do these groups play
    in anarchist theory?

    J.3.7 Doesn't Bakunin's "Invisible
    Dictatorship" prove that anarchists are secret authoritarians?

    J.3.8 What is anarcho-syndicalism?


    J.3.9 Why are many anarchists not anarcho-syndicalists?


J.4 What trends in society aid anarchist activity?

    J.4.1 Why is social struggle a good
    sign?

    J.4.2 Won't social struggle do more
    harm than good?

    J.4.3 Are the new social movements a
    positive development for anarchists?

    J.4.4 What is the "economic structural
    crisis"?

    J.4.5 Why is this "economic structural
    crisis" important to social struggle?

    J.4.6 What are implications of anti-government
    and anti-big business feelings?

    J.4.7 What about the communications
    revolution?

    J.4.8 What is the significance of the
    accelerating rate of change and the information explosion?

    J.4.9 What are Netwars?


J.5 What alternative social organisations do anarchists create?


    J.5.1 What is community unionism?

    J.5.2 Why do anarchists support industrial
    unionism?

    J.5.3 What attitude do anarchists take
    to existing unions?

    J.5.4 What are industrial networks?

    J.5.5 What forms of co-operative credit
    do anarchists support?

    J.5.6 What are the key features of mutual
    credit schemes?

    J.5.7 Do most anarchists think mutual
    credit is sufficient to abolish capitalism?

    J.5.8 What would a modern system of mutual
    banking look like?

    J.5.9 How does mutual credit work?

    J.5.10 Why do anarchists support co-operatives?

    J.5.11 If workers really want self-management,
    why aren't there more producer co-operatives?

    J.5.12 If self-management is more efficient,
    surely capitalist firms will be forced to introduce it by the market?

    J.5.13 What are Modern Schools?

    J.5.14 What is Libertarian Municipalism?

    J.5.15 What attitude do anarchists take
    to the welfare state?

    J.5.16 Are there any historical examples
    of collective self-help?




J.6 What methods of child rearing do anarchists advocate?

    J.6.1 What are the main principles
    of raising free children and the main obstacles to implementing
    those principles?

    J.6.2 What are some examples of libertarian
    child-rearing methods applied to the care of newborn infants

    J.6.3 What are some examples of libertarian
    child-rearing methods applied to the care of young children?

    J.6.4 If children have nothing to fear,
    how can they be good?

    J.6.5 But how can children learn ethics
    if they are not given punishments, prohibitions, and religious instruction?


    J.6.6 But how will a free child ever
    learn unselfishness?

    J.6.7 Isn't what you call "libertarian
    child-rearing" just another name for spoiling the child?

    J.6.8 What is the anarchist position
    on teenage sexual liberation?

    J.6.9 But isn't this concern with teenage
    sexual liberation just a distraction from issues that should be of more concern to anarchists, like restructuring the economy?

J.7 What do anarchists mean by "social revolution"?

      J.7.1 Are all anarchists revolutionaries?

      J.7.2 Is social revolution possible?

      J.7.3 Doesn't revolution mean violence?

      J.7.4 What would a social revolution
      involve?

      J.7.5 What is the role of anarchists
      in a social revolution?

      J.7.6 How could an anarchist revolution
      defend itself?