Agrippa
16th July 2009, 19:52
objectives:
the objective is the dissolution of the capitalist social organism, not the seizure of hegemony over the global social terrain generated by mercantile-technocratic civilization, but the fracture of its reproduction.
The end of capitalism will not parallel the classical bourgeois revolutions from the storming of the Bastille to the triumph of the PLA in 1949 , so much as it will the fall of the roman empire.
No mass movement will victoriously overcome the global system overnight, and introduce a new order, instead a protracted struggle will be fought against the backdrop of intensifying social antagonism, valorization crisis and ecological meltdown.
In this context, the goal is not a elusive decisive victory, but the constitution of base areas and counter power in an indefinite war of attrition.
The tipping point is the global development of liberated zones, self sufficient and armed.
Organization:
the necessary leap from the isolated individual, to the initiation of collective rupture with capitalist social reproduction is to be found in the development of serious and tight knit informal organizations, which in their turn, become nodes of regional and global networks.
The foundation of this process is the progress of the concept the affinity group, from a merely arbitrary association, to one that is bound by blood ties in all the most literal senses of that term.
Our own anarchist tradition has many historical models to consider in this regard, from the “circles” of the Russian partisans, to the action groups of the FAI.
This sort of organization will best proceed from the seamless integration of the everyday, and the political, and must transcend in the extent of its functions, such familiar forms as the partisan unit, the activist group, and the commune.
Tactics:
the multiplication of a social base is dependent upon the provision of practical solutions to practical problems, and the provision of such solutions rests upon discipline, organizational capacity and a willingness to make certain sacrifices.
Intervention in ongoing struggles, and agitation of the everyday relations of exploitation and oppression is to be preferred to abstract and ineffectual expressions of principle, solidarity and theoretical sophistication.
Coalitions are to be formed among the exploited, not with the fifth column of the class enemy among the ngos, unions and “civil society” groups.
Without the independent social infrastructure outlined above, this is impossible, and we find ourselves with the choice of retreat into a isolated sub cultural scene, or co-option by the state oriented left.
Propaganda, agitation, formation of counter institutions and militant action, form an organic totality, and must on no account be regarded as competing tendencies, but as harmonious elements of a single “grand strategy”.
Insofar as the object is the formation of thousands of localized overlapping communities, and the dis articulation of the hegemonic order of capital, the forms adapted by the partisan armies, and urban guerrillas of the anti colonial liberation movements, are no longer applicable, on the other hand the rejection of the question of power as out of hand is an inviable position.
The tendencies of social struggles in recent years, which can be seen in the Greek and French uprisings,
the new wave of the Basque and Corsican separatist movements, and the low intensity class war prevailing from Brazil to China, set the stage for the constitution of a global “social guerrilla”, which takes as its adversary not merely the state, but the normal functioning of capitalist existence in its entirety.
by a communist
Link (http://signalfire.org/?p=451)
the objective is the dissolution of the capitalist social organism, not the seizure of hegemony over the global social terrain generated by mercantile-technocratic civilization, but the fracture of its reproduction.
The end of capitalism will not parallel the classical bourgeois revolutions from the storming of the Bastille to the triumph of the PLA in 1949 , so much as it will the fall of the roman empire.
No mass movement will victoriously overcome the global system overnight, and introduce a new order, instead a protracted struggle will be fought against the backdrop of intensifying social antagonism, valorization crisis and ecological meltdown.
In this context, the goal is not a elusive decisive victory, but the constitution of base areas and counter power in an indefinite war of attrition.
The tipping point is the global development of liberated zones, self sufficient and armed.
Organization:
the necessary leap from the isolated individual, to the initiation of collective rupture with capitalist social reproduction is to be found in the development of serious and tight knit informal organizations, which in their turn, become nodes of regional and global networks.
The foundation of this process is the progress of the concept the affinity group, from a merely arbitrary association, to one that is bound by blood ties in all the most literal senses of that term.
Our own anarchist tradition has many historical models to consider in this regard, from the “circles” of the Russian partisans, to the action groups of the FAI.
This sort of organization will best proceed from the seamless integration of the everyday, and the political, and must transcend in the extent of its functions, such familiar forms as the partisan unit, the activist group, and the commune.
Tactics:
the multiplication of a social base is dependent upon the provision of practical solutions to practical problems, and the provision of such solutions rests upon discipline, organizational capacity and a willingness to make certain sacrifices.
Intervention in ongoing struggles, and agitation of the everyday relations of exploitation and oppression is to be preferred to abstract and ineffectual expressions of principle, solidarity and theoretical sophistication.
Coalitions are to be formed among the exploited, not with the fifth column of the class enemy among the ngos, unions and “civil society” groups.
Without the independent social infrastructure outlined above, this is impossible, and we find ourselves with the choice of retreat into a isolated sub cultural scene, or co-option by the state oriented left.
Propaganda, agitation, formation of counter institutions and militant action, form an organic totality, and must on no account be regarded as competing tendencies, but as harmonious elements of a single “grand strategy”.
Insofar as the object is the formation of thousands of localized overlapping communities, and the dis articulation of the hegemonic order of capital, the forms adapted by the partisan armies, and urban guerrillas of the anti colonial liberation movements, are no longer applicable, on the other hand the rejection of the question of power as out of hand is an inviable position.
The tendencies of social struggles in recent years, which can be seen in the Greek and French uprisings,
the new wave of the Basque and Corsican separatist movements, and the low intensity class war prevailing from Brazil to China, set the stage for the constitution of a global “social guerrilla”, which takes as its adversary not merely the state, but the normal functioning of capitalist existence in its entirety.
by a communist
Link (http://signalfire.org/?p=451)