ABSTRACT

Anarchists suggest that people should be organizationally prepared for revolutionary struggles and transformation, not only intellectually prepared. There is a real need for political and economic organization suited to meeting people's immediate needs while managing the equitable provision of resources across communities. Anarchist infrastructures of resistance serve as means by which people can sustain radical social change both before, during and after insurrectionary periods. People can participate in liberatory economic and social relations immediately and can begin re-organizing society now. This anarchist immediatism encourages people to create alternative social spaces or infrastructures within which liberatory institutions, practices and relationships can be nurtured. Immediatism includes the beginnings of economic and political self-management through the creation of institutions which can encourage a broader social transformation while also providing some of the conditions for personal and collective sustenance and growth in the present.