Libertarian Socialist Method:

Minimum common terms of practice include direct democracy, non-hierarchy, co-federalism, respecting what should be guaranteed collective and individual freedoms (including but not limited to a substantial free association).*glossary definitions provided below. Such universal principles are then adapted to specific contexts and relevant conditions. People make decisions about what affects them–including political economic life– in egalitarian and participatory ways through deliberation and direct decision making processes. In deliberation processes, people can express proposals, needs, what people are able and willing to do to meet general needs, concerns, critiques, dissent, amendments, inquiries, other possibilities, preferences, scientific information, technical information, philosophical information, etc. and try to use collective wisdom to round out proposals to arrive at collective decisions. Such a process should happen within and between collectives on a variety of scales. Embedded participatory councils of assemblies and embedded delegates of assemblies are mandated, recallable, rotated and given no policy making power. Implementation of collective decisions made at general assemblies are done within the bounds of policy made at general assemblies. The right kind of freedom and the right kind of equality are goals to be approached and embodied within the process of organizations. The content of such a process should use oppositional politics against that which should not exist and reconstructive politics to create that which should exist, to meet people’s needs, create a realm of freedom, and to treat ecological systems with rational care. Process continues onwards for reevaluation and new content.

The content that fills this process needs to be created by people interfacing with libertarian socialist processes. The form and process of libertarian socialist practice are not sufficient to arrive at such goals and content by themselves. Persons and collectives must fill it with a good and strategic content to arrive at various goals. Such a process–form and content wise– should be adapted specific contexts (while keeping its necessary features) to arrive at revolutions where such libertarian socialist processes become political economic decision making processes. However, doing so is notoriously difficult for there are many relevant variables about specific localities one is in with all of their specific social relationships which are themselves changing. That being said, there are some general patterns and lessons we can discern for how we should move forward, build a movement worth developing, and fight for a world worth fighting for. We should always go back and forth between our process and our content refining each to be ethically principled and refining each to be conducive to various goals worth striving towards.

Glossary Definitions:

Direct Democracy: Direct collective decision making processes. Non-Hierarchy: The absence of institutionalized ruling classes, strata, and top-down command-obedience relations. Co-Federalism: Organizing together across collectives in such a way where persons and collectives retain their freedom to make decisions directly while making decisions on a plurality of scales from the bottom upwards from the local, to regional, and inter-regional scales. Substantial Free Association: Includes Freedom of association, freedom from association, and freedom within associations. Freedom within associations can only be arrived at through horizontalism and participatory relations that lack arbitrary coercion and discrimination.