Ana libb

"After the much-vaunted failure of state socialism (and the neoliberal turn of social democracy) at the beginning of the 1990s, the ideas of mutual aid and power "from below", outside of the state, had become the norm across large swathes of the Left. The period between the anti-globalization movement at the turn of the millennium and Occupy Wall Street saw the rise of "anarcho-liberalism": the rejection of state action in favor of ideas focused on community self-management, liberated spaces, and "changing the world without taking power."

The late Mark Fisher noted how the belief in the impossibility of state action was itself a product of "capitalist realism": that is, remaining trapped in the ideological perspective provided by neoliberalism itself...

But most people do not have time, resources, or energy to take part in permanent political mobilization or the battle maintain occupied spaces, whatever their merits. Political action is not an end in itself. Permanent mobolization (or "assemblies" based on direct democracy) risks becoming a dictatorship of the bored and available, unable to offer a realistic and reliable prospect of change to a majority. It is a poor cousin of rights guaranteed by states."