1-5 ok. 6-10 well? Anarchist media-actions are important (Do It Yourself)

by Anna Quist, Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 02:32 @ Anna Quist
edited by Anna Quist, Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 04:18

» » I would like to make an article on 10 concrete ways in which one can
» » personally help smash the State. So far I've only come up with 7:
» »
» » 1. Talk to your friends about Anarchy, send people to TOLFA, etc
» » 2. For birthdays or Christmas, give books or movies that promote
» Anarchist
» » ideas
» » 3. Start or support local Meetups, help kickstart local projects
» through
» » these Meetups
» » 4. If you are a student, join Bureaucrash and support their campaigns
» » 5. If you live in a big city, join black flagger groups
» » 6. Tax resistance, and under-the-table work whenever possible
» » 7. Non-cooperation with the State (police, licencing, etc)
» » ADDED: 8. Disentangling oneself from the system. Bartering,
» » self-production, online loans, etc. Participating in black markets.
» Agorist
» » counter-economics.
» »
» » Any other suggestions?
»
The points 1-5 seem ok to me, although I don't know what TOLFA and bureaucrash are. I guess it is something libertarian.

I am a bit sceptical to agorism, because it will have significant authoritarian coercive market failures, as all "free" markets.

Bartering in legal exchange circles are relatively big in Norway, but I think illegal trading, say in drugs etc, i.e. the black market, is mostly authoritarian. Tax resistance may bring you in serious problems with the system, and perhaps you end up in jail, thus I will not recommend it.

One important point you have forgotten is anarchist media actions:

"In an anarchy of low degree, as Norway is at present, with ca 54% degree
of anarchy, and ca 46% authoritarian degree, see Dagens Næringsliv (The Industrial life of today, the main economical newspaper of Norway) no 2/3 june 2007 and Finansavisen (The Financial newspaper) Wednesday 17. October 2007, the politics are to a large degree formed via the discussion in the public space. NACO, via the AIIS, and most of the media in general, have an important role to play in this matter, attacking authoritarian tendencies and supporting the libertarian. NACO is a libertarian voice in forming the day to day practical politics in the Anarchy of Norway, via the public space, and is not so occupied with the anarchist ideal, although it is never forgotten.

Anarchists and other people who have cases to put forward vis-à-vis the Storting or the State Council (STACO) etc., may write a petition in an e-mail to NACO. If NACO supports it, they will frame a resolution and/or take other direct actions to promote the case."

See http://www.anarchy.no/naco.html

NACO is the The Norwegian Anarchist Council, a group elected by AFIN, the Anarchist Federation of Norway, to take care of day to day politics in the Anarchy of Norway. The NACO works in close connection with AFIN, in a orizontal way.

Most of anarchists on this forum are as far as I know, not organized in anarchist federations, and as pure individuals, there is little to do to increase the libertarian degree and reduce the authoritarian degree, in the country you live in. To achieve a higher libertarian degree collective anarchist action is a must. Thus I will say: Organize!!! Say, join the Anarchist International, see http://www.anarchy.no/ijaupdate.html to get a free subscription to the IJA/AI newsletters.