The following is the introductory book chapter from one of the best introductory books on anarchism, which is unfortunately out of print. This is excerpted from *Reinventing Anarchy: What are the anarchists thinking these days?* edited by Howard J. and Carol Ehrlich and others, and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1979. For social anarchists revolution is a process, a process leading to the total deflation of state authority. That process entails self- and collective education and the building of alternative institutions as mechanisms of survival, of training and as models of a new society. Continuing parts of that process are repeated symbolic protests and direct assaults on ruling class institutions.