calls for acts of violence against the government.
“The state has to be knocked out of existence by the exploited and excluded, thus anarchists must attack: waiting for the state to disappear is defeat,” it reads. “It is through acting and learning to act, not propaganda, that we will open the path to insurrection.”
Kyle Shideler, director of homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, told The Dallas Express that the attack apparently aligns with the manifesto’s belief system.
“For insurrectionary anarchists, police in particular are a highly desirable target,” Shideler said.
He cited “Armed Joy,” a 1977 work by Alfredo M. Bonanno, which issued a call to action with the following command: “Hurry comrade, shoot the policeman, the judge, the boss. Now, before a new police prevent you.”
Anarchists have been frustrated with the failure of “widespread protests” for years, according to Shideler. He said tension has been growing between anarchists and Marxist-Leninists, like the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
“While we can’t know for certain what the alleged attackers took from the pamphlet unless we learn more,” he said, “their actions are aligned with the beliefs of insurrectionary anarchists, who emphasize provocative and often violent direct action attacks over protests, organizing, or other forms of politics.”
The Manifesto
Organizing for Attack! Insurrectionary Anarchy says adherents must take actions that become “mass insurrections – that is to say actual revolutions.” They aim to “destroy the capitalist order of the world.”
“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.”
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