Editing Sydney Push (section)

==Protest and activism==
{{See also|Anarchism in Australia}}
[[File:Ian Parker and Bob Gould.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|Sydney Push associates Ian Parker (left) and Bob Gould in a 1960s pavement demonstration outside the [[Queen Victoria Building]] in Sydney. Parker died in the late 1970s; Gould, a notable bookseller,<ref>[http://gouldsbooks.com/ Gould's Book Arcade]</ref> died in 2011.]]
Sydney Libertarianism adopted an attitude of permanent protest recognisable in the sociological theories of [[Max Nomad]], [[Vilfredo Pareto]] and [[Robert Michels]], which predicted the inevitability of elites and the futility of revolutions. They used phrases such as "anarchism without ends", "non-utopian anarchism", and "permanent protest" to describe their activities and theories. Others labelled them as the 'futilitarians'. An early [[Karl Marx|Marx]] quotation, used by [[Wilhelm Reich]] as the motto for his ''[[Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf|The Sexual Revolution]]'', was adopted as a motto, viz:

<blockquote>Since it is not for us to create a plan for the future that will hold for all time, all the more surely what we contemporaries have to do is the uncompromising critical evaluation of all that exists, uncompromising in the sense that our criticism fears neither its own results nor the conflict with the powers that be.</blockquote>

Nevertheless, Push associates regularly assisted in organising and turning out for street demonstrations, e.g., against South African apartheid and in support of victims of the 1960 [[Sharpeville massacre]]; against the initial refusal of immigration minister [[Alexander Downer, Sr.]] to grant political asylum to three Portuguese merchant seamen who jumped ship in Darwin; and against Australia's participation in the [[Vietnam War]].

In line with the Libertarians' rejection of conventional political models, electoral activism was foreign to the Push, save to urge non-voting and informal voting. At the election after prime minister [[Harold Holt]] failed to return from a swim, artist and film-maker [[David Perry (Australian filmmaker)|David Perry]] produced a highly acclaimed poster featuring "a continuum of pigs (inspired by Orwell's ''Animal Farm'')" with the slogan "Whoever you vote for, a politician always gets in."<ref>Perry, David. "Memoirs of a Dedicated Amateur". Valentine Press, 2014, p. 50</ref>