Fan the flames of every crisis: Make Anonymity OFFENSIVE
author: committe secreto (s)
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Though nothing can WORK in the US - even Portland - the ideas in the Coming Insurrection: COmmunize to Anarchize - are the only thing that begins to make sense. Not sure if IMCs will run any of the book since the secret committee explains so well how all activism is reactionary and evil.
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Slicing With Wishes
Everywhere there is the same idiotic idea of happiness...
The same games of power that are paralyzed with fear...
The same disarming superficiality...
the same emotional illiteracy... the same Desert.
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The desert cannot grow anymore: it is everywhere. But it can still deepen. Faced with the evidence of the catastrophe, there are those who get indignant and those who take note, those who denounce and those who get organized. We are on the side of those who get organized. These are the modern ideologies.
Empire is everywhere nothing is happening. Everywhere things are working. Wherever the normal situation prevails. The urgency of the situation in the world allows us to be rid of all considerations of legality or legitimacy. We serenely envisage the criminal nature of our existence and of our gestures.
It is no longer a matter of foretelling the collapse or depicting the possibilities of joy. Whether it comes sooner or later, the point is to prepare for it. From now on, to materially organize for survival is to materially organize for attack.
What remains to be created, to be tended as one tends a fire, is a certain outlook, a certain tactical fever, which once it has emerged, even now, reveals itself as a constant source of determination. From now on all friendship is political. Existing forms of activism are not only irrelevant, but reactionary. Living communism and spreading anarchy constitute the dual sides of the same structure of revolt.
A world of youth and lost people opens up to a strategy of resistance centered on the irreversible multiplication of articulated communes. The commune names both the work of self-sufficiency shared amongst comrades as well as the incessant blockages, liberations, and points of confrontation that populate and crack the metropolis itself. What is the reason for all of this? Survival and its correlate, joy.
Liberating spaces sets us free a hundred times more than any "liberated space". Within the contemporary order of empire, where life itself is the object and ground of political power, the ability to evade capture is the same ability to confront power. Becoming anonymous while remaining singular is the modern task of resistance today, a task as offensive as it is defensive.
Communising without anarchizing is hopeless,
for one must constitute a threat in order for
communism to be more than an isolated affair.
The challenge is to create the conditions where an offensive can sustain itself without fading, of establishing the material solidarities that allow us to hold on. We believe there is no revolution without the constitution of a common material power. We do not ignore the anachronism of this belief. We know it is too early and also that it is too late, that is why we have time.
We have ceased to wait.
The collective creation of a strategy is the only alternative to falling back on an identity. We move around, in a torsion of being, from the logic of the human strike to the strategy of communisation. Following the logic of anarchy implies that the task is to cause inscrutable confusion and damage to the enemy while simultaneously expanding one's power of self-organization with one's friends.
How to do this:
Fan the flames of every crisis. Because the interruption of the flow of commodities, the suspension of normality and of police control releases a potential for self-organization unthinkable under normal circumstances.
Liberate territory from police occupation; avoid direct confrontation as much as possible. Expose the police for what they are: shameless parasites of the fear of people. Don't fetishize police confrontation, rather confront the fetishization of the police.
Blockade everything. In a world where power is the very organization itself of the metropolis, where life is suspended such that capital may be free, any and every interruption has the possibility of reopening the possibility of life again. But a blockage can only go as far as the capacity of the insurgents to feed themselves and to communicate, as far as the effective self-organization of the different communes.
Blockades must contribute to the extensive mutilation of the metropolitan form as well as the intensive circulation of self-perpetuating knowledge and affects. If one maintains an attention of discipline, if one wagers on a thin ridge their entire existence, then what becomes possible is that as yet unachieved goal for every insurrection: to become irreversible.
Beyond a General Strike, the human strike creates the possibility for shared worlds to communicate free of coercion on the basis of their needs.
What we are talking about is a new war, a new partisan war. Without front nor uniform, without army nor decisive battle. A guerilla whose focos unfold away from the commercial flows although plugged into them. We're talking about a war full of latency. That's got time. A war of position.
Which is waged where we are. In the name of no one. In the name of our own existence,
which has no name.
Making this slight displacement.
No longer fearing our time.
To any moral preoccupation, to any concern for purity, we substitute the collective working out of a strategy. Only that which impedes the increase of our strength is bad. It follows from this resolution that economics and politics can no longer be distinguished. We are not afraid of forming gangs if necessary; to accuse us of being a mafia is laughable.
This is where we are left today: with comrades in jail. How are we to take this insusrectionary logic in, make it ours, consume it without deforming it? If the invisible has become identified, if the opaque has been made transparent, then there is no other solution but to disguise ourselves once more, opening
human strike after human strike,
to reach the insurrection,
where there is nothing but,
where we are all,
whatever
singularities.
We have lived the isolated conditions of existence known as the modern world, and never again will we return to them. They weaken us too much. Make us too vulnerable. Make us waste away.
Reconstituting worlds of shared experience can only take the form of a collection of acts of communisation, of making common such-and-such space, such-and-such machine, such-and-such knowledge.
Whilst running away from conditions of existence that mutilate us, we found the international squat scene. In this constellation of occupied spaces in which, despite its limits, it is possible to experiment with forms of collective aggregation outside of control, we have known an increase of power. We have organised ourselves for elementary survival - skipping, theft, collective work, common meals, sharing of skills, of equipment, of loving inclinations - and we have found forms of political expression - concerts, leaflets, demos, direct actions, sabotage. Then, little by little, we have seen our surrounds turn into a milieu and from a milieu into a scene. Moral code replaced the working out of a strategy. Norms solidified, reputations were built, ideas began to function, and everything became so predictable.
Often the collective adventure turned into a dull cohabitation. In the end what was believed to be a counter-world amounted to nothing but a reflection of the prevailing world: the same games of personal valorisation as regards theft, fights, political correction, or radicalism - the same sordid liberalism in affective life, the same scraps over territory and access, the same scission between everyday life and political activity, the same identity paranoia. Squats, communes, groupuscules, barios, all try to extract themselves from capitalist desolation. Most often these attempts fail or die from autarchy, for lack of having established contacts, the appropriate solidarities, for lack also of conceiving themselves as parties to the world civil war. But all these re-aggregations are still nothing in comparison with the mass desire, with the constantly deferred desire, to drop out.
We do not impute these weaknesses to the squat form. We neither deny nor desert it. We say that squatting will only make sense again provided that the basis of the sharing entered into is clarified. In the squat like anywhere else, the collective creation of a strategy is the only alternative to falling back on an identity, either through integration into society or withdrawing into the ghetto. A commune is formed every time a few people, freed of their individual straitjackets, decide to rely only on themselves and pit their strength against the reality. Sharing here is not simply a gratuitous act between individuals, but a mode of survival across bodies and spaces in a consistent series of linked events. Communising a space, knowledge or object is not changing its relations of production, but rather abolishing those relations, rendering them structurally meaningless, indeterminable.
Communising a place means: setting its use free, and on the basis of this liberation experimenting with refined, intensified, and complicated relations.
Communes will evolve a social mutual responsibility for survival and to feel good. Generosity will be as natural for the traveler as for the neighbor. Sharing will be a joy. Confronting a common and vicious enemy communes will need each other in the deepest ways. Financial and organizational support in the formation of new communes will be admired. Cooperation, sympathy and unity will enhance the ranks and bring over local masses. Futures will intertwine and fit into each other. The waste and the poisons of the Empyre's residue will be healed away as people learn to work together and find their strengths.
Take advantage of every crisis because the Rich will use their power to coop or corrupt every fad, idea, group, every political party every vision and even the move to a rad green frugality - and so all of these efforts alone are empty and false...
The armed forces don't simply adapt themselves to the metropolis, they produce it. But every network has its weak points, the nodes that must be undone in order to interrupt circulation, to unwind the web. Establish a series of foci of desertion, of secession poles, of rallying points. For the runaways. For those who leave. A set of places to take shelter from the control of a civilization that is headed for the abyss. These foci of desertion are not given but neither are they created; they are rather established within and through what is already present. They are topological mutations of the forms we are presented with, such that experience knows no name for our modes of relation with them, except through the link between sharing and needs. Communism starts from the experience of sharing. And first, from the sharing of our needs. "Needs" refers to "the relationship through which a certain sensible being gives meaning to such or such element of his world. In this view, communism is another word for the "sharing of the sensible," the practice of coordinating worlds of meaning across the abyss of bare life.
Everything about understanding is in learning about the style vs. content vs form debate. From any angle... Whatever angle you look at it from, there's no escape from the present. That's not the least of its virtues... For those who want absolutely to have hope, the present knocks down every support. It's understood that now everything can only go from bad to worse.
There's no Future for the Future. There's no social solution to the present situation. Progress has everywhere become a synonym for disaster. We are starting again. We are starting over and over again... Done with passive resistance, inner exile, conflict by subtraction, survival. We are starting again. In twenty years, we have had enough time to see. We have understood. A hollow Demokracy for all, "anti-terrorist" struggle, state massacres, capitalist restructuring and the Great Work of the social purge, by selection, by casualisation, by normalisation, by "modernisation". Globalization...
WATER BOARDING HAS REPLACED SNOW BOARDING.
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Honestly, it's best to hit them were it hurts. These institutions are part and parcel of a corportocracy. Major corporations now own everyone, and everything. Tear them down from the inside. Let's make it THEIR recession. Do not purchase from any corporations that operate beyond the local level. Many of us do this already. The missing link is education of your neighbors. Enlighten them, as to what's happening. pull their attention from the edutainments that are polluting their minds, shake them, and show them what's happening. Perhaps they'll join, and pull back from the global economy. Show them how to invest in our local area. Show them how to work with ethical organizations nearby. This is the secret that they hide now. They'll change their names, and storefronts, to disguise themselves. Starbucks is already setting up "psuedo-local" coffee shops around the Seattle area, in an attempt to be part of the relocalization revolution. Learn skills that help the local economy, and help your neighbors. be a solution.
Make this their recession. instead of buying a car, from a multi-national corporation, learn to use mass transit, or build a bicycle for travel. Learn to grow a garden, with your neighbors. pull all your accounts from multi-national banks, and open an account at a local credit union or bank. close out your debts, and run debt free. learn to make clothes, and sell them locally. Only patronize locally owned food establishments. This is what their really afraid of. Most of all, talk with people, not just each-other. Take this message everywhere you go.