Firstly I use co-opted in the sense that a movement who's aim was freedom from oppression became part of it.
So in this sense Christianity Islam's anti-debt anti-oppression strain as with the workers movements inspired by Marxism and the vision of doing away with capitalism
Many Many efforts towards freedom from oppression have been co-opted
By so-called friends of movements and their known enemies
whether it is the Christians in their tiny communes preaching sharing and pacifism and human brotherhood and the end of the empire was co-opted by Emperor Constantine becomes the first use this to the building of empire.
I digress.
When I say results of an anarchist society I mean the type of society that necessarily expresses the aspirations of Our nature towards freedom solidarity and truth freedom from superstition etc. typified by this quote and like the main thrust of the whole document.
"Anarchism therefore is a part of human nature, communism its logical extension." -[
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/makhno/makhnoanrev.html]
So like Political Anarchism like with a capital 'A' (rather than anarchism with a little what everyone does, and so does every rebellion/revolt at least a little to live) makes the realization of the fullest expression of anarchist nature the basis of a new society their political project.
So in my view with that presumption, each method like Anarcho-syndaclist insurrectionist pacifist individualist feminist even primitivist and the right wing libertarians likely and all the rest
Want anarchy a free society where no one rules another.
I guess I don't see judging by results as utilitarian at all. Just M.aterialist, like what actually are the results not what is believed about the results.
Utilitarian I thought was a moral precept that what is best for the most is always best which is ironically anti-democratic because each person takes their turn being of the minority position--but I digress again
Like anyway no one could call a genocidal war a anarchist one without being completely incoherent and ridiculous
Anarchist as in being apposed to coercive authority--being arbitrarily murderous and tyrannical is a contradiction in terms.
ok
So libertarian advocating freedom of thought and action
means Anarchist in every country except the USA and maybe Canada
So when I see what Libertarian Marxists do and say they look like anarcho-marxists to me
after all Marx was a philosopher of how capitalist society acts and set down some systematic framework to study things that surely works for some revolutionaries and some Apolitical academics.
Ok, Ok taking too long. just here me out.
If people aren't materialists (
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/materialist then it would be harder to judge anything by much except by personal preference.
What I mean is work is sometimes unpleasant and uncomfortable but that isn't really a good barometer of whether it is a good idea.
In fact most politics are the pits. the struggle can kill you and you may lose much of what you hold dear.
So I think it may be tempting to choose methods that are more comfortable and traditional and frankly for that reason easier regaurdless of the fact that in terms of political content and even like possibility that the method will help bring about social revolution may turn out to be minimal based on evidence.
Prefiguration doesn't literaly mean the exact same thing now as later.
Otherwise we're talking about doing food not bombs from here to eternity. We can't want that. We should make it so such protest and method would become irrelevant replaced by better ways of getting everyone to have healthy food in their bellies.
You can judge the impact by numbers by looking at the world. Isn't it then that we have to consider how best should we organize? So of course we have to make revolution and insurrection...
but we don't want to be breaking windows and getting into staged Napoleonic warfare with the cops forever
we need to think how can we organize in a way that the police state may one day be overpowered by the people and abolished---that will take a whole lot of very organized people.
I guess the better question is, why don't anarchists just be honest about why they choose their tactics and then choose the best method they think will be most likely to result in anarchy, based on evidence?
sometimes throwing bricks is less scary than organizing at your job or sitting in a tree...
