ABSTRACT
While the "preferred" strategies of passive resistance and agitation were clearly individualistic in nature, the "acceptable" strategies necessitated cooperation and were thus more collectivistic. Thus, there seems to have been a generational shift occurring in the strategy of individualist anarchism. While the more established strategies were "preferred", the newer, more labor-oriented strategies were receiving considerable attention, and some support. When the individualist anarchists supported boycotts and unionization, they were in the mainstream of the labor movement, although their reasons for doing so were not typical. In particular, the conflict between perfectionistic and opportunistic orientations to strategy informed the debate over colonies, boycotts, and unions. Unions, like boycotts, were typically defended as theoretically sound, but were sometimes criticized for their actions in particular labor struggles. Most writers discussed whether boycotts were inconsistent with anarchist principles and whether they could be effective tools.
