Insurrectionary Anarchism

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Insurrectionary anarchism is the tendency within anarchism that emphasizes informal organization, the immediacy of action, and the refusal of programmatic politics — pre-written platforms, party structures, mass organizations, and the deferral of freedom to a post-revolutionary future. Its primary theorist in the late twentieth century was Alfredo Bonanno.

The insurrectionary position holds that revolutionary organization should be informal and temporary: small affinity groups that form around specific actions, not permanent organizations that accumulate bureaucracy and reproduce internal hierarchies. Formal organizations — even anarchist ones — tend to develop self-preservation instincts that compete with their stated aims. The federation, the union, the party: each becomes a thing to be maintained, and maintenance displaces insurgency.

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Insurrectionary Anarchism