Too many people spend their political life searching for the quick fix, the magic wand, instant revolution. Trotskyists see this wand as a collection of 'right slogans and right leaders'. Too often anarchists have echoed this by seeing the magic wand as media exposure resulting in a sense of importance. From the period of the Poll Tax on, anarchists have received considerable media exposure but almost nothing has come out of this. We advocate a more long term approach, one that recognises the possibility of revolution, but also recognises the need to build for it.
Ideas have to be developed and clarified.
We have to be able to develop and implement strategy for our organisations in a democratic fashion. Anarchists have to be able to argue confidently with activists from other areas of the left and win these arguments without resorting to sectarianism. There has to be involvement in real struggle. This means learning to work alongside other activists including those who may be hostile to anarchism. There has been too much of a tendency to stay aloof from struggle in the interests of maintaining ideological 'purity' or setting up anarchist alternatives to much larger campaigns.