lifestylism

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.

1972 article from Root & Branch on the issues affecting women workers, and exposing some myths of the feminist movement, like sisterhood instead of class antagonism.