I swiped this out of the front of the latest issue of Imminent Rebellion (An irregular journal from deep in the South Pacific), published by Rebel Press.
Anarchism
With a small a, the word anarchism implies a set of
assumptions and principles, a recurrent tendency
or orientation - with the stress on movement in a
direction, not a perfected condition - toward more
dispersed and less concentrated power; less top-down
hierarchy and more self-determination through
bottom-up participation; liberty and equality seen
as directly rather than inversely proportional; the
nurturance of individuality and diversity within
a matrix of interconnectivity, mutuality, and
accountability; and an expansive recognition of
the various forms that power relations can take,
and correspondingly, the various dimensions of
emancipation. This tendency, when it becomes
conscious, motivates people to oppose or subvert
the structures that generate and sustain inequity,
unfreedom, injustice, and to promote or prefigure the
structures that generate and sustain equity, freedom,
and justice.
-Maia Rammath, Decolonizing Anarchism
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