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Organization, Continuity, Community
False modesty has prevented us from seeing how effective we’ve been, ego has prevented us from seeing how systematically we fumble revolutionary situations. It’s time to get real:
In the last 20 years, anarchists have played vital support roles or even created the force necessary to push anger or resistance past a tipping point and into uncontrollable rebellion time and again, in Egypt, Hong Kong, Catalunya, Greece, France, Sweden, the US, Mexico, Chile, Brazil...Time and again, we have also gotten left behind, failed to prepare for a predictable danger, or not known how to take the next steps.
Our successes show there is clearly something valid about our methods and critiques. Many of our failures come down to questions of Organization, Continuity, Community. We continue to fetishize organization, as though every problem were a nail, rather than treating it as a simple tool, each one with advantages and disadvantages. We fail to effectively identify why we tend to be a one-generation movement that has to reinvent the wheel and commit similar mistakes over and over again. And we are not effectively understanding the nature of our isolation in this society, an isolation that limits our capacity for action and leaves us vulnerable to repression.
In the last 20 years, anarchists have played vital support roles or even created the force necessary to push anger or resistance past a tipping point and into uncontrollable rebellion time and again, in Egypt, Hong Kong, Catalunya, Greece, France, Sweden, the US, Mexico, Chile, Brazil...Time and again, we have also gotten left behind, failed to prepare for a predictable danger, or not known how to take the next steps.
Our successes show there is clearly something valid about our methods and critiques. Many of our failures come down to questions of Organization, Continuity, Community. We continue to fetishize organization, as though every problem were a nail, rather than treating it as a simple tool, each one with advantages and disadvantages. We fail to effectively identify why we tend to be a one-generation movement that has to reinvent the wheel and commit similar mistakes over and over again. And we are not effectively understanding the nature of our isolation in this society, an isolation that limits our capacity for action and leaves us vulnerable to repression.
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128 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2024
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Peter Gelderloos
26 books115 followersPeter Gelderloos is an American anarchist activist and writer.
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September 12, 2024
Excellent book full of priceless information. it seems to me to take some of the anarchic politic ala tiqqun, agamben, deleuze (at least the nomadic war machine; maybe more) but fleshes it out into something with more structure, heft and, dare i say, a program for organizing effectively in our increasingly fraught age. if you look at our collective future with dread and despair and see little cause for hope in our community, have the courage to read this book and be sure to seek out more by this brilliant author.
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