ABSTRACT
Micropolitical practices are useful to individual activists and to movements – they can make life more ethical and livable in the movement space – and so they can work in concert with other tactics aimed at radical political intervention. The micropolitical practices of anarchists have specific philosophical underpinnings that root them in an anarchist tradition. The fact that there are differences of opinion on the place of micropolitics within anarchism suggests that micropolitics is less than core to the anarchist tradition. However, there are ways in which many anarchists understand their core beliefs to dictate micropolitical critique and activism. The chapter discusses these, in the interest of illuminating how micropolitical practices of anarchism on the ground give nuance and texture to the central tenets of anarchist philosophy. While micropolitics are not at the essential core of anarchism as a political ideology, they are adjacent in that they nearly always emerge in the lived practice of anarchists, in all historical eras.
