On the insurrectionary anarchist projection
Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras - November 2015 - Chile
“ To escape the miseries there are but three paths : two imaginary and one real . The first two are the bar and the Church ; the third is the Revolution .” ( Freely adapted from the original phrase of M . Bakunin ).
“ People are not determined by the conditions in which they live ( for example imprisonment ) but what really characterized them , are the choices they make .” ( Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Cell of members in prison , Greece )
When we speak of insurrectionary projection , we – anarchists / anti-authoritarians of praxis – do not refer to a future in which things are radicalised or where the panorama is more favourable to “ give everything in the fight ” and to sharpen the conflict against domination . This way of understanding the insurrection and its projections is abstract , fictional and can only contribute to the defence of comfort and the postponement to take up a protagonist position in the conflict against power here and now .
For us , anti-authoritarians adverse to all forms of power and society , the insurrectionary projection , without dogmas or magic formulas , is constructed in the now of the permanent revolt against the established , giving our actions an offensive content against the social order , to capture in every word and act the need for the destruction and multiform attack against all forms of authority as continuous and inescapable element of any real process of individual and collective liberation .
This entails knowing how to identify and know our enemy , to make it visible and spread its destruction , relying on the various tools offered by the history of anti-authoritarian struggle . Throughout this process , the comfortable and safe criticism , arrogance , smugness and victimhood are completely estranged elements to the insurrectional projection .
Similarly , every life practice or proposal of intervention that does not propagate the need for the destruction of power and the attack against domination as part of the struggle for freedom , is doomed to become a mere vent for everyday hardship that domination produces . This is how , for example , proposals on “ ecological practices ” that do not call to destroy and attack those , who for their profit , produce and manage the environmental slaughter on the planet , are easily lost in the variety of ideological offers of “ sustainability ” displayed in the windows of green capitalism , appearing as an attempt , naive and harmless , to save the planet from the destruction , while keeping intact the pillars on which domination is based .
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