Anarcocrip Manifesto.
Anarchism anti-ableism (or anarcho-anti-ableism, or anarcocrip) holds that anti-ableism is a given for anarchy, and conversely, that anarchism is a given for anti-ableism. One is the prerequisite for the other.
Anti-ableism is a structural prerequisite of anarchist thought itself, which must abolish all forms of oppression, domination and hierarchy. Conversely, any critique of ableism that is not anarchist remains trapped within the logic of normalisation and adaptation to the capitalist system and ableism.
Anarchism is the only ideology that can embrace anti-ableism without contradicting itself. People with disabilities, excluded from everywhere else, are welcomed there with friendship, through the abolition of all forms of domination. Even those we do not think about. Even when anarchism had never conceptualised anti-ableism, it was there, somewhere.
Anti-ableism forces anarchists to rethink the very definition of strength, weakness, activism, commitment, dependence, autonomy, freedom and equality. By rejecting all authority, anarchism lays the foundations for an emancipation that cannot stop at the gates of the flesh.
Anarcocrip rejects the charity of inclusion. Inclusion is a liberal trap: it presupposes that there is a healthy, normal and legitimate centre, from which the margins can be included. To accept inclusion is to validate the legitimacy of those who set the norm. It is to beg for a place within a system built on our exclusion. We do not want a seat at the table; we want to overturn it.
And if we are in favour of transforming society and our living conditions, we are necessarily revolutionaries. It is only through the abolition of money and wage labour that we will find our happiness, our emancipation and collective freedom.
The revolution will be crip or it will not be at all. But the revolution is not for the day after tomorrow. The break with ableism system and social norms does not begin after the fall of institutions; it is practised today. With radical scope, through mutual aid and solidarity, in the struggle against all forms of discrimination, in the rejection of assessment and competition, and in the independence of our non-conforming lives, here and now.
Anonymous, September 2026.
“I am an individualist anarchist because all the aspirations of my inner self are directed towards this one goal: happiness! I am an altruistic anarchist because I love my neighbour as myself, because the sight of their suffering, their distress and their misery moves me and causes me deep sorrow! I am a rebellious anarchist because, having a deep and sincere love of friendship in my heart, all injustice revolts me.”
Emile Rinaldain. Why I Am an Anarchist, 1897.
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