Lifestyle anarchism is a term derived from anarchist author Murray Bookchin's Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm. He used it to criticise anarchists who he believed advocated individualism at the expense of class struggle. The term is now in general use as a description of positions that concentrate on changes to personal behaviour rather than wholesale reorganisation or abolition of class society.

In general, those described as lifestyle anarchists deny that they reject social or class struggle, sometimes by rejecting the distinction between individual and class behaviour.

Many Lifestyle Anarchists participate in community oriented activities such as Food Not Bombs, Critical Mass, or small local level direct actions such as Spraypaint Art.

Crimethinc is an organization/political trend that is frequently characterized as embracing lifestyle anarchism.

See Also

• Anarcho-primitivist
• Post-left anarchy
• Situationist