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Another key issue of the insurrection and its projections
is that it is constructed on the rebellious desires and interests based in the first person singular and then be
made collectively. However, taking an active part in the
insurrection entails, as we said, knowing your enemy, its
system of relationships, repression and the consequences for those who seek to hinder the plans of domination.
That process of understanding also involves the fundamental factor of knowing oneself, by reflecting on and
deconstructing ourselves, asking what we really want
and how far we want to get in the insurrectional struggle, taking into consideration if we’re in this just to feel
adrenaline, for a transitional rebellion or for a commitment that embraces the totality of life with the choices
and consequences that this entails (imprisonment, beatings, death, persecution, etc.)
All this is of vital importance to engage in a kind of confrontation in which the state, the power and their repression does not care how deep our commitment is, beating
the insurgents without any consideration.
But none of this has a real importance if we forget that
the insurrection and its projections warrants coherence
between ideas and actions, that leads us to sharpen our
positions and to not retreat in the face of repression or
of the offers of a comfortable and stress-free life under
the mask of rebellion.
Thus, the intensity, duration and extent of the revolt
against the existing order will depend on how we see the
insurrection, constantly looking at ourselves, because
getting involved in the confrontation against the dominations motivated simply by adrenaline, for the sake of
recognition, by hobby, by youth fashion, to fit within a
group or without solid foundations entrenched in ourselves, hinders the insurrectional projection or prevents
it from sustaining itself over time and space as a body
dynamic and dangerous for the power.

The real weight of the positions maintained on weak
foundations, is often put in evidence at the time things
get difficult for the insurgents, when repression worsens
or becomes more insistent for example. In the lives of
some people the proclaimed radical positions are suddenly forgotten, turn to silence or are relativized because of fear and/or “perplexity” at the responses of an
enemy that seeks to stop the insurrection at all costs.
Therefore, we echo what other companions have said
at other times starting from the idea that there is little
possibility of insurrectionary projection if we only fight
against external factors of domination (the police, the
state, institutions, etc. ...) without continually strengthening in ourselves the foundations, values and principles
that sustain the insurgency against the establishment.
So, we take distance from the deplorable practices such
as to justify the setbacks in the realm of ideas and acts
by the weak ideological display “to respect personal
choices”, or to evade criticism by branding as “judges”
or “anarcho-leaders” those who propagate the permanent tension in the conflict with authority. Such practices and discourses only give more space to the development of our enemy and the values and practices that
discredit the insurrection and reinforce the authority.
Anarchy is not something separate from ourselves. We
ourselves are anarchy and the insurrectional projection
is something that only we can create.
With all the questions raised, we do not seek to impose
anything on anyone, but to help start debates and tensions against inaction and excuses to postpone the action against power.
Feel the urgency of the present.
Propaganda and action against all forms of
domination.

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