Lifestyle anarchism

Lifestyle anarchism is a term derived from Murray Bookchin's polemical essay "." He used it to criticise those anarchists who he believed advocated individualism at the expense of class struggle. The term is sometimes used by anarchists as a description of positions that concentrate on changes to personal behaviour rather than the wholesale reorganisation or abolition of class and hierarchical society, or simply as a synonym for individualist anarchism. [cite journal
last=Franks
first=Benjamin
date=2005-09-22
title=British anarchisms and the miners' strike
journal=Capital & Class
issue=87
pages=227–54] Critics of this term see this definition as a form of sectarianism; anarchist librarian and activist Chuck Munson for example, denies that lifestylism exists, and has decried the concept as "one of the most divisive and destructive things inflicted on the anarchist movement in recent years."" [http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2008spain-interviews-chuck Alasbarricadas interviews Infoshop founder, Chuck Munson] ", Infoshop.org, 2008-02-20.] "Practical Anarchy" has identified the "lifestylist" debate "simplistic" and exhorted anarchists to move on from it. [cite journal
url=http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=03/07/18/3115851
title=Food for Thought
publisher=Infoshop.org
journal=Practical Anarchy
accessdate=2008-02-23
last=Heathcott
first=Joseph
year=2001
month=Spring]

ee also

*Mark Andersen, critic of lifestylism. [cite book |last=Andersen |first=Mark |title=All the Power : Revolution Without Illusion |publisher=Punk Planet Books |location=City |year=2004 |isbn=9781888451726 ]

References

External links

* [http://libcom.org/library/social-anarchism--lifestyle-anarchism-murray-bookchin "Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism - An Unbridgeable Chasm"]
* [http://libcom.org/library/socanlifean8 "Evaluating Lifestyle Anarchism"] - Libcom.org
* [http://www.infoshop.org/movement_debunker.html "Debunking Nonsense in the Anarchist Movement"] - Infoshop.org