What forbids us translating the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?
To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising — such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife.
“The state will not wither away, as it seems many anarchists have come to believe,” it reads. “Waiting only teaches waiting; in acting one learns to act.”
The document cited the uprisings in Paris in May 1968, the armed insurrections in Italy in the 1970s, and the unrest in Albania in the late 1990s. It stated that attacks cannot remain isolated and must spread.
“Small actions – which require unsophisticated means that are available to all and thus are easily reproducible – are by their very simplicity and spontaneity uncontrollable,” it reads. “They make a mockery of even the most advanced technological developments in counter-insurgency.”
Action must remain independent to keep anarchist activity true to its principles, according to the manifesto, which called for “no compromise” in the goal of destroying authority.
“Revolutionary solidarity is always an active attack; it always involves the recovery of our own active powers that multiply in combination – in solidarity – with the active powers of others,” the document reads.
It encourages anarchists to store up anger when they witness perceived injustice, so they can turn it into violence later.
“I again open up this special compartment and put the anger of some new atrocity in it, all in anticipation of the day when I shall need this anger to bring the Empire down.”
“I perceive my anger calling me from inside this compartment, I hear the door unlatching from inside, and this new terrible question approaches me: How shall I know when it’s time for insurrection?”
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