Power is not seen as located in any single institution such as patriarchy or the state, but as pervasive in everyday life. The focus of maximalism thus remains the dismantlement of the control complex, of the totality, of life structured by governance and coercion, of power itself in all its multiple forms. Everything is open to questiona and challenge. Nothing is off limits to investigation and revision. Power, in all its overt and subtle forms, must be rooted out if life is to become free.
Nothing is sacred, least of all the fetishised, reified shibboleths of anarchism.
Maximalism entails a renewal and extension of the Nietzshean possibilities for new ways of life, in short anarchist epistemologies and ontologies. In contrast, minimalist anarchism encompasses those forms of anarchism which have not made the post-Situationist quantum leap toward the maximalist postions outlined above. The urgent priority of maximalism constitutes the development and implemantation of an anarchist psychology. Other dimensions af the anarchist project remain subsidiary to this aim. Abandoning the baggage of Enlightenment rationality, maximalism needs to recognise that human beings are first and foremost creatures of passion and irrationality, and only secondarily reasonable beings.