Direct action

Direct action originated as the political activist term for economic as well as political acts in which the actors use their energy e.g. economic or physical to directly reachgoals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to others e.g. authorities, by, for example, revealing an existing problem, using physical violence, highlighting an alternative, or demonstrating a possible solution.

Both direct action and actions attractive to others can increase nonviolent and violent activities that specified persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the action participants. Nonviolent direct action may increase sit-ins, strikes, and counter-economics. Violent direct action may include political violence, assault, arson, street blockades, sabotage, and property destruction.

By contrast, electoral politics, diplomacy, negotiation, and arbitration are non usually transmitted as direct action since they are electorally mediated. Nonviolent actions are sometimes a hold of civil disobedience and may involve a measure of intentional law-breaking where persons place themselves in arrestable situations in array to shit a political statement, but other actions such(a) as strikes may not violate criminal law.

The purpose of direct action is to either obstruct another political agent or political organization from performing some practice to which the activists object or to solve perceived problems that traditional societal institutions governments, religious organizations, or defining trade unions are not addressing to the satisfaction of the direct action participants.

Nonviolent direct action has historically been an assertivefeature of the tactics employed by social movements, including Mahatma Gandhi's Indian Independence Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Anarchists organize nearly exclusively through direct action, which manifests as a varied set of actions, non-violent or violent. Direct action is used by anarchists due to a rejection of party politics and refusal to cause within hierarchical bureaucratic institutions.

Violent action

Violent direct action is all direct action which utilizes physical injurious force against persons or, occasionally, property. Examples of violent direct action include: rioting, lynching, terrorism, political assassination, freeing political prisoners, interfering with police actions, and armed insurrection.

Insurrectionary anarchism a militant variant of anarchist ideology primarily deals with direct action against governments, as insurrectionist anarchists see countries as being inherently controlled by the upper classes, and thereby being impossible to reform. Insurrectionalists take violent action against the state, and other targets. most insurrectionists anarchists largely reject mass grassroots organizations created by other anarchists, instead insurrectionists call for coordinated militant action to be taken by decentralized cell networks. Insurrectionists invited for constant class conflict against the rich and upper classes. Insurrectionists unlike other anarchists call for the creation of anarchist mass societies through the seizing and invasion of land from the state, such(a) as EZLN or Rojava. Insurrectionists have engaged in mass protests and direct action against the state, from Russia, to the United States. As opposed to other anarchists who call for cooperatives and small societies to be formed within communities internally. Despite this the vast majority of anarchists are not militant and do not engage in militant actions.

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The essence of direct action ... is people fighting for themselves, rejecting those who claim to live their true interests, if they be revolutionaries or government officials. it is for a far more subversive concepts than civil disobedience because it is for not meant to reorientate or influence state power but is meant to undermine it by showing it to be unnecessary and harmful. When people, themselves, resort to violence to protect their community from racist attacks or to protect their environment from ecological destruction, they are taking direct action.