What Kind of Activism Do Anarchists and Libertarians Consider the Most Effective?

Question

Simple question for anarchists and libertarians: of the many possible kinds of activism (protesting, union organizing, etc., -- there are countless possibilities) do you think will do the most good?

Answer 1

Workplace occupations. Unlike strikes, where you have to get the boss to agree to your terms (which isn't always possible), with workplace occupations, you can run your workplace as you see fit, democratically, without having to wait for any action on the part of the boss or government at all. It is simple civil disobedience, but it doesn't disrupt the economy and piss off customers, while at the same time, it gets employees the demands they want immediately.

There's a film about this happening in Argentina, called The Take http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=The%20Take

Answer 2

Organizing Anarchists is always a problem, it is sort of like establishing a church devoted to atheism (although there are many religions in which gods play no part, as a single issue dogma it would not work well)

On the other hand you have two distinct groups of folks, those who do not want restrictions on their own exercise of power (Libertarians), and those who want for nobody to have any power over anyone (true anarchists)

The Libertarians usually have funds to help pay for the subversion of Government and by joining with the rest of the Gang Of Pirates they, unfortunately, have succeeded terribly, They have effectively destroyed oversight and fairness in every industry from Media and automobiles to toothpaste, as well as forcing most victims of Katrina to beg help from countries that actually care about fellow humans.

Actual Anarchists have a larger problem, There is little that can be accomplished unless people work togeather, either as a political movement or as any sort of productive activity, and to do that there must be some power issues.

What Anarchists can do therefore is to work with Liberals to make sure that all those who exercise power do so honorably or be held accountable in some manner.

If real Socialist principals are kept as the best for everybody, and something some socialists forget, that bigger is almost always worse, but everyone is held accountable to honor (which means that there must be a large power that can only restrict the abuse of power by others, but not exercise positive power) then something resembling a best possible society can emerge.

To a large extant this is very much what many European Countries, and New Zealand have achieved, though their own Gangs Of Pirates have worked very hard to dismantle the institutions that have given them such a high quality of life.

The smallness of the countries has kept institutions smaller than they might have been, but has also made them more vulnerable to giant pirates with power that exceeds many of those countries.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Infiltration of the centers of power, generally by appearing to sell out.

Answer 5

Practicing what you preach & living what you believe. If enough people did that- the World would change by itself.

Answer 6

Guerrilla marketing, monkey-wrenching, and making people think.