The writing of this diary was inspired in part by mwmwm’s jeremiad of Monday. The point is this: the future is cathected negatively because our institutions have failed to catch up with the real future unfolding before our eyes.
Thus institution-based actions are often ineffective. Direct action approaches to social problems, however, offer the immediate replacement of power lost through institution-based strategies of “triangulation.” In relying upon bourgeois, capitalist government in a neoliberal era, we sell out our ideals to that government’s raison d’etre. Thus anarchist direct action (in such a context) suggests grounds for further thought about methods of political problem-solving (and of redress for lost human rights), even for progressives.
(Crossposted at Big Orange)