Am I an Anarchist Quiz
Questions: 15 · 10 minutes
1. Officials repeatedly postpone action on a neighborhood environmental problem. Which next step seems most effective?
Organize a peaceful community intervention that directly addresses the problem and pressures decision-makers.
Prepare the issue for the next election and support candidates offering a solution.
Combine a public demonstration with formal complaints and policy negotiations.
Keep working through agency meetings, expert reports, and administrative appeals.
2. A political candidate promises a reform you strongly support. How would you respond?
Put most available energy into helping the candidate win office.
Support the campaign while continuing independent community organizing.
Focus on lobbying the candidate and party for a detailed commitment.
Build community power to pursue the goal regardless of who wins.
3. When technical expertise is essential to a public decision, what role should experts have?
Officials should decide after relying heavily on expert findings.
Affected communities should decide, treating experts as advisers rather than rulers.
Qualified experts should make the final decision within their field.
The wider public should decide after experts present accessible evidence and options.
4. Workers and owners are in a serious dispute over schedules and conditions. Which resolution would you prefer?
Workers take direct control and reorganize the workplace through self-management.
Management decides after hearing employee concerns and reviewing business needs.
A union negotiates a binding agreement within the existing ownership structure.
A labor board or mediator imposes an enforceable compromise.
5. A community workshop needs to decide how its annual budget will be used. Which process appeals to you most?
Members deliberate together and appoint temporary, recallable coordinators.
An elected committee gathers proposals and makes the final allocation.
An experienced manager prepares and controls the budget.
Professional staff prepare the budget, subject to a member vote.
6. A local law conflicts with your sense of justice but was passed through the usual legal process. Which response feels most legitimate?
Challenge it through courts, elections, or formal petitions.
Follow it unless the authorized institutions repeal it.
Join affected people in openly refusing and replacing it with their own arrangement.
Seek a public negotiation that can produce an exception or revised rule.
7. A new cooperative says it wants a more equal society. How important is it for the cooperative to embody that aim internally now?
It should use horizontal roles and shared decision-making from the beginning.
It should introduce participation gradually once operations are stable.
Its social impact matters more than how authority is arranged internally.
It should balance participatory governance with some durable leadership roles.
8. A neighborhood faces a sudden shortage of affordable food. Which response would you most want to support?
A municipal relief program managed by public employees.
A resident-run network where people share food, labor, and decisions directly.
Incentives that help local businesses increase supply and lower prices.
A nonprofit partnership that includes residents on its planning board.
9. In a large workplace, who should have the final say over major decisions affecting employees?
Representatives elected by employees should share substantial decision-making power.
The owners and executives who carry formal responsibility for the organization.
The affected workers, using assemblies and delegates they can replace.
Managers, after structured consultation with employees.
10. A tenants' campaign wants lasting protection from sudden rent increases. Which strategy would you prioritize?
Build tenant assemblies, mutual support, and coordinated collective pressure.
Campaign mainly for candidates who support stronger housing laws.
Combine legislative advocacy with an independent tenant organization.
Ask established housing groups to negotiate a policy proposal with officials.
11. What most strongly makes a social rule legitimate in your view?
It comes from the institution officially authorized to issue it.
Affected people meaningfully shape it and retain ways to challenge or leave the arrangement.
Those affected continuously consent and can revoke any delegated authority.
It was enacted by elected representatives under established procedures.
12. During a fast-moving emergency, which coordination model would you trust most?
Autonomous local groups coordinating through voluntary federations.
A central command with strict time limits and independent oversight.
A central command empowered to make binding operational decisions.
Local response units following shared mandates that participating communities approved.
13. Which model seems most promising for providing essential services across many communities?
Regulated private providers competing under common standards.
A national public agency with consistent rules and funding.
Local public bodies with significant resident participation.
Federations of community and worker-run cooperatives sharing resources.
14. Some members of a shared project contribute much less than others. How should the group respond?
Discuss needs and expectations collectively, then revise voluntary commitments together.
Authorize coordinators to assign duties and enforce agreed consequences.
Use clear contracts linking each member's access to measurable contributions.
Let an elected committee set minimum duties while allowing negotiated exceptions.
15. An activist group must make a time-sensitive decision at a crowded meeting. What should it do?
Let the most experienced organizer decide so the group can move quickly.
Use a facilitator, seek broad consent, and give a recallable team a narrow mandate.
Take a majority vote after a fixed period of discussion.
Allow the elected leadership committee to decide after hearing brief comments.