* Section J: What do anarchists do?

** 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 kinds 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 new-born 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?