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'''Direct action''' refers to taking a quick action against something disliked. It thus excludes only expressing views against what is disliked and it excludes actions taking a long time to start and/or complete. The "direct actions" are often quasi-legal or illegal, such as sit-ins, squatting, blockades, "civil resistance", intimidation, sabotage, property destruction, and/or violence.
'''Direct action''' originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to others (e.g. authorities), by, for example, revealing an existing problem, using physical violence, highlighting an alternative, or demonstrating a possible solution.


Although the phrase has been applied to various actions by a wide variety of groups, in practice the phrase is mainly used by [[far left]] groups and individuals, especially [[social anarchist]] ones, as a [[euphemism]] for their quasi-legal and illegal activities. Several [[antifa]] groups even name themselves "Anti-Fascist Action", or something similar, with "Action" referring to "direct action".
There are both solutions, violent and nonviolent.
 
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Revision as of 08:08, 26 October 2022

Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to others (e.g. authorities), by, for example, revealing an existing problem, using physical violence, highlighting an alternative, or demonstrating a possible solution.

There are both solutions, violent and nonviolent.