suffice . Something else is needed , one needs a project , an orientation which brings together all the elements of anarchist acting : ideas , analyses , methodology , will , perspective . This projectuality is our compass . It is not “ local ”, it is not linked to one single struggle or one single intervention , it is present in all our choices , all our decisions , all our research , all our discussions . But one cannot hope for projectuality to solve all problems which might occur , to foresee all obstacles to deal with , one cannot expect it to give in some sort guarantees . No , projectuality cannot offer us certainty , it is just accompanying us on the road . The certainty to arrive is not part of it .
Many comrades back away from such reflections , or are backing away by asking themselves the wrong questions confronting the necessity for projectuality . Whatever form our projectuality could take on a given moment ( a specific struggle , an intervention in social turmoil , an autonomous trajectory of diffuse attack ,…), it should not scare us that these forms cannot contain in themselves the whole complexity of things . Any choice brings us to make experiences , to deepen certain aspects , to learn from failures also , and then start all over again , but with something extra in our backpacks . Yes , at a certain moment , one should also dare to decide , to chose a certain road , a certain path , even when one has the conscience of that path not containing everything . In other words , one should dare also , on a certain moment , to put an end to the quantitative accumulation of analyses , capacities , contacts ,… “ Close the books ” ( not to stop thinking , obviously ), to make action possible . That is the moment when quality makes its irruption . Let ’ s not be afraid of quality . Let ’ s not ruin her with to much chitchat , with to much mental masturbation : quality is life itself , one has to embrace her , not reject her .
This insurrectional projectuality , is it capable of identifying the enemy ? Is it capable of going beyond the façades of domination ? Production , work , reproduction , control , war : all depend on the good functioning of what power is defining as “ critical infrastructures ”: energy , transport and communication . The domination of tomorrow , the chains of tomorrow , are being forged in the laboratories of nanotechnology , biotechnology , information and communication technology . The insurrectional projectuality can therefore not be limited to articulating itself in only one way , it are the methodology and the perspective which are weaving all interventions together . Here this projectuality takes the form of a specific struggle against the building of a new high tension line or the exploitation of an open air mine , there it expresses itself in the diffusion of sabotage against small technological and energetic structures spread out through the territory , and somewhere else it materialises in the destruction of the laboratories of power .
The second aspect of this projectuality is to be prepared to intervene during eruptions of rage which do not stop from emerging on the border fields which are separating the included and the excluded . To intervene in it , a certain organisational proposal might be necessary , as well towards the anarchists as towards other rebels . The informal organisation , the small groups based on affinity and orientated towards attack , the coordination between them , a certain sharing of knowledge , information and means ; and then , this informal organisation might , at moments of social explosion as during specific struggles , become part of a proposal of self-organisation addressed to the exploited . Even if such a proposal could be more potential than effective , its merits is the diffusion of the anarchist methodology , the arming of the excluded to confront their enemies .
Such is the challenge today for all anarchists who share the insurrectional perspective : contribute to clarify this projectuality , to articulate it , to make it alive , to propose it . The alternative consists probably of letting oneself be swept away by the waves of the storm and getting crushed on the rocky shores . The enemy is expecting nothing less .
Anarchists from the surroundings of the Rio Douro and the Senne .
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