Look, I know you reject anarchism but when you wake up tomorrow just do me a favor and from the moment you wake up til the moment you go to bed think about how many times in the day you really found real genuine productive use for the government in your life.

The fact that a relatively small movement such as anarchism not only gets militantly attacked and marginalised by liberal democrats, conservatives and fascists, but also by marxists, communists, socialists of all stripes clearly illustrates how dangerous and threatening our ideas of real human freedom and positive social change are for those who desire nothing more than to rule over the rest of us.

The most important step for anyone sympathetic to the paradigm of anarchism is to step back from the political arena in order to take in the larger picture. Take a moment to consider the implications of the conclusions that you, as an anarchist, have drawn which have led you to your current understanding of politics, government, and society. We have all reached the truth that the political machine – voting, election campaigns, political parties – is designed with one very specific set of goals in mind. These processes are engineered in order to ensure the least possible amount of change, and to create an ever increasing dependence on abiding by such processes as politically necessary. As anarchists, we already hold contempt for the farce of elections and voting. We realize that it is a mechanism not of change, but of the illusion of change.

Let us take another step back and connect our intellectual dots. As anarchists, who understand the futility and the insult that is presented to us as intelligent and independent persons in the form of the political process – why do we insist on clinging to the methods employed by that same establishment? Why, as anarchists, have we continued to think within the same, ineffective box when it comes to the methods we’ve employed to reach our political goals? Tactics designed and in use by political parties and electoral candidates exist for their ends – ends which are meant to uphold the status quo and invoke the same tired responses from citizens unaware of their predicament. So why do we continue to pretend that the approach of the establishment will accomplish our goal of supplanting it?