Autonomous Self-Organization and Anarchist Intervention

A Tension in Practice...

Autonomous self-organization would have to be the basis both of a truly free existence and of the struggle to achieve that existence. It is the very opposite of politics, and in practice either rejects it or is destroyed by it.
The practice of self-organization seems to develop spontaneously when people rise up in revolt. What distinguishes it from politics is its opposition to representation and compromise -- not just with the ruling order, but within the self-organized movement itself.