The anarchists are enemies of all authority , be it statist , capitalist or patriarchal . They are for freedom and against slavery . But they are not stupid . They know that authority is not only the politicians , the capitalists and the leaders . It is also those who obey , those who consent to be exploited , and those who follow orders . Even if we will never put on the same level those who exert and those who undergo authority , those who possess the industries and those who are being exploited in the factories , those who wear the uniform and those who are forced to respect them , we will not stop saying that the only way to emancipate is to start to fight , is to break the cohabitation between masters and slaves .
We are probably many asking ourselves . How come that after centuries of oppression and exploitation , the capitalist system and the state power still seem in good health ? Why haven ’ t they been eradicated from the surface of the earth , thrown into the gutter like all rot ? Many attempts were made , attempts of insurrection and social revolution . But today , we have to acknowledge the fact that domination has managed to include a vast majority of the exploited themselves . Through the fetishism of consumption , generalized numbness , the decentralization and thus the spread of power to all spheres of human life , capital and state seem , for the moment , to manage to block off any horizon other than the reproduction of the existent . This reproduction , the social reproduction of domination , is probably the principal target of the revolutionary intervention today . If sometimes riots may erupt , a discontent may express itself in the streets , virulent reactions may happen against yet another crime of power , the question is to aim further , deeper , more fundamental : it is about targeting what is supposed to guarantee “ the normal way of things ”.
To return to the sabotages of the transmission antennae of the RTBF and the VRT , we believe they provide some important indications concerning the struggle methods to use and the possible domains of intervention . If the technological world is instilling permanently , 24h / 24 , resignation and acceptance of our “ place ” in society , the place of sheep who consume , work and obey ; this world depends also of very numerous structures , spread out all around us , and which are quite easy to attack . And no military force or tight surveillance could ever protected them efficiently .
To provoke a short circuit in the daily life of numbness and exploitation means to crack the layer of concrete which is crushing us all . No waiting for a magical moment where “ the people ” will take conscience of their situation and take out on the streets ; waiting only plays the game of domination , which day after day is building and consolidating , as well on a material level ( new prisons , new police stations , new industries , new control networks ) as on a mental level ( brainwashing , deleting of the very idea of revolt , reduction of life to commodity ). From out of the cracks the rebels will know how to provoke , another horizon might arise , a horizon of freedom and social revolution .
// Hors Service , anarchist paper , n ° 45 , Brussels //
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