 Proponents are known for opposing the existence of states or government and refusing to participate in coercive state institutions.In the past, many refused to swear oaths in court or to participate in trials, even when they faced imprisonment or deportation.For Chamsy el-Ojeili, "it is frequently to forms of working-class or popular self-organization that Left communists look in answer to the questions of the struggle for socialism, revolution and post-capitalist social organization.