Ezequiel Adamovsky on the Operational and Tactical Principles of Post-Capitalist Activism

Characteristics

Via Anitra Nelson:

"Argentinian Ezequiel Adamovsky (2011: 89–124) distinguishes contemporary young anti-capitalists from the traditional left due to their focus on 10 distinctive operational principles and styles, as follow.

1. Anti- and counter-power: ‘“disempowering” the state’ rather than ‘“taking over” it’

2. Acting autonomously, so that ‘the expansion of power-to undermines power-over’

3. With presence and immediacy: ‘Each time they create self-managed, non-commercial, and egalitarian spaces, the revolution is taking place.’

4. Using horizontalist structures, non-hierarchical assembly-based organisation and sharing knowledge and skills

5. Structurally de-centred, for instance constantly re-organising voluntary and flexible networks

6. Integrating a multitude of types of people and liberationist causes

7. Strategically responding to specifics and learning through listening rather than laying down a general program and propagating a line to be followed

8. In local–global – versus national state-focused – struggles against capitalism

9. Using direct action and civil disobedience – being the point, being the power

10. Developing a constructive creative culture vs an intransigent them–us culture."

(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786241237434)

More information

• Adamovsky E (2011) Anti-Capitalism: The New Generation of Emancipatory Movements. New York: Seven Stories Press.