Actionism

Activism is a derivation of the Latin term actio for " action " and refers to action-oriented Tun

Colloquial

The term activism assumed bustling, unreflective or aimless action without having a plan in order to avoid the appearance of idleness or underuse or to cover up. Activism can also mean that many projects discussed or started but not completed.

The accusation of " bare / blind activism " is often made ​​politicians. So there are always politicians or political groups that emerge with opinions and demonstrations on various political issues, but also neglect the targeted, practical, the public is often difficult to place political work.

The term also stands for unorganized political or social actions which, although a change of existing social relations object whose goals but neither well defined nor thought through and their consequences are usually not considered.

As a political concept

Activism is a particularly anarchism associated concept direct, immediate and not guided by proxy action. First activism means one's own, not symbolic of resistance Tun Here, the activism overcomes the means-end relation. Activism manifests itself in a variety of subversive acts. The action itself is an expression of a subversive life and will not be evaluated in terms of visual impact on the political order, as they can be counted on to be a shift in power. In the political activism it seems important to understand one's own person as a point of resistance and resistance itself as a development alteritärer living conditions and so to avoid the risks of representative policies.

The action itself can be considered " pleasurable experience, liberating fact, the moment of self-realization" and have felt the " character of a staging of a play."

An action-oriented approach, the contrast has concrete social change goal is the direct action.