lifestylism

Lifestylism is medicine. Lifestyle Anarchism, or Lifestylism, is an approach to life and politics that emphasizes how an individual or group of individuals live out their lives over the building of mass social movements. Various anarchist tendencies fall into this category including Individualism/Egoism and Anarcho-Primitivism. An ideological precursor to Lifestylism could be the Utopian Socialists of the 19th…

Central to the neoliberal revolution, indeed capitalism itself, is the fashioning of an acquisitive and individualist self. To create a socialist…

In this 2006 lecture, Miguel Amorós depicts the previous twenty years as a period of radical changes…

Some notes within the context of the American anarchist 'scene'.

Joel Olson argues against counter-institution building and militant street protests…

Two letters to the Industrial Worker about a piece called 'Sowing the Seeds of Workers Power'

A critique of early CrimethInc. writings, written by one of the libcom group between 2005 and 2006…

A class struggle anarchist critique of lifestylist activist group CrimethInc. written by W in 2006.

RAAN highlight their struggle against lifestylism, and the problem of 'the scene' limiting organisational practice, as it is inhibited by sub-cultures that move into activism formulating their own cliques. As they argue "If scenes are the bourgeois social structures that arise as a result of people struggling to come to terms with alienation, then “Anarcho-sceneism” is the held belief that a revolutionary movement…

Article from Class War issue 73 on pacifism, lifestylism and the 1990s anti-roads movement.