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Translated fo US-Eng lish by Lawrence Jarach (in communication with the autho)

Proposition INothing is missing from

the iumph of civiliza

tion. Neither political terror nor emotional povertyNor univrsal sterility

The desert can no longerexpand: it is evewhere

, But it can still deepenFaced with the obvious

ness of the catastrophe there are those who becoeindignant and those whotake note those who de

nounce and those wo getorganized We are on theside of those who get organized

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Ths s a cail That s to say tams at those who can hear t. Thequeston s not to demonstrate, to argue, to onvn We wll go drectly to

' the obvous Ths s not

prmarly a matter of logc or reasog Wha s obvous s what sperceptble, the realm of realty

There s a clarty to ever realty at s held n coon orwhat sets apart After ths s ecognzed, communcato becoespossble aga; commucatonwhch s no onger presupposed,but whch s to be ut

And hs network of obvousthngs that make us up we havebeen taught so well to doubt t, oavod t, to concea t, to keep t toourselves We have been taught sowell that we lack the words whenwe want to shout

As for he order we lve under,everone knows what t consstsof: the empre s starng us the

face Tat a dyng socal system hasno other justfcaton to ts arbtrarynature than ts aburd determna

ton - ts sene determnaton - smply to lnge on; that the global and natonal polce have receved a free hadto get rd of those who do nt toe thelne; that cvlzaton, wouded tsheart, no longer encounters anythgbut ts own lmts n the endless wart has begun; that ts headlong ght,already almost a centuy old, produces nothng but a seres o ncreasngyfrequent dsasters; that the mass of

humans accoodate themseves toths order of thgs by means of es,cyncsm, brutazaton, or pls noone can clam to gnore these thgsany longer

And the sport that conssts n endessly descrbng the present dsaster,wth a varyng degree of compasance, s just another way of sayng:

"thats the way t s; the prze of nfamy gog to journalsts, to al those

who pretend every morng to redscover the bullsht they ony just notced the day before

But what s most strkng for thetme beng, s not the arrogance ofempre, but ather the weakness ofthe counterattack Lke a coossal paralyss A mass paralyss whch w sometmes cause peope o say thatnotg can be done, but who wllsometmes oncede, when pushed tother lmt, that thee s so much todo whch snt any dfferent Then,at the margs of ths parayss, theres the we really have to do sometng, anythg ofhe actvsts

Seattle, Prague, Genoa, the strugge aganst GMOs he movementof the unemployed we have ayedour part, we have tn de the

struggles of recent years; and course not that of the extrapalaentary (for now) coalto

of Leftsts from ATTAC or thNegrst antglobalzaton mtants of Tt Bn.

The folkore of protests hacased to amuse us In the ladecade, we have seen the dumonologue of MarxsmLen

sm beg regurgtated frothe mou hs of teenagers Whave seen the purest anarchsegate what t caot compr

hend We have seen the motedous economsmthat of tnd o L Mond Dplomtq-becomng the new popurelon And egrsm assertsef as the oy aternatve the nteectual rout of he gloal left

Everywhere mtantsm hgone back to rasng ts rcketconstructons, s depressnnetworks, untl t s exhausted

It took no more than teyears for he cops, uons, another formal bureacraces dsmante the shortlved AnGobalzaon Movement Tcontrol t To dve t o seprate"areas of struggle, each aprotable as t s sterle In themes from Davos to PorAegre, rom the French bosseuon Medef to the French CNcaptalsm and antcaptalspont to the same ssng horzon The same truncated propct of mngng te dt

What opposes ths domnadeoaton s notg but another desolaton, just es westocked verywhere there

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the same idiotic idea of happness .he same games of spastic powerThe same defused superficiality.he same emotional iliteracy. Thesame desert

We sa that this epoch is a desert, and that this desert s incessantly depenng hs is no poecdevce; t is obvious This obviousnes holds many others. Notabthe rupre with al who protest, al

who denounce, and a who mbleon about the disaster

She who denounces exemptsherself.

Everything appears as if Leftists were accumulatg reasons torevolt the same way a manager ac-cumulates the mens to domnate.hat is to say with the same delight

he desert is th progessivedepopuation of various worlds.he habit e have adopted of liv-ing as if we were nt of this word.The desert exists in the continuous,massve, and programmed proetariazation of populations, just asin California suburbs, where ds-tress lies precise in the fact thatno one sees to e�perience it

That the present desert is not perceived ony verifies its existence

Some have red to name thedesert o pont out what has to be oughtnot as the acton of someforeign agent, but as an ensembleof relations The have taked aboutthe Spectacle, about Biopower,about Empire But ths only adds tothe current confusion

The sectacle s ot an eas ab

brevation for mass media t lives just as much in the cruelt withwhich our on false image s endessly thrown back at us.

Biopoer is not a synonym forsoca securit, the weare state, orthe pharmaceutica industry but itpleasnty lodes itse n the carethat we take of our prety bodies, ina certan physical esrangement fromonesef as wel as from others.

Empire s not some ind of exraterrestral entity, a worldwideconspiracy of goveents, inancia networks, technocrats, and

multnational corporations. Empireis everywhere nothing is happeningEverywhere things are workng.Everywhere the status quo reigns.

We continue to see the enemas a subject that faces usinsteadof eperiencng it as a relationshpthat binds uswe confine oursevs to the struggle against confnement We reproduce the worstrelationshps of doinance underthe pretet of an aternative eset up shops for selling the sruggleagainst the commodity. We see therise of the authorites of the antiauthoritarian struggle, macho feminism, and antiracist lynchings.

At every moment we are takingpart in a siuation Withn a situaton there are no subects and obects, and the other, my desresand reaityony an ensemble ofreationships, an ensembe of thefluxes that raverse t.

There is a genera contetcapitaism, civilizaton, empire, as you

wisha genera context tha notoy intends to control each situ-tion but, even worse, seeks a wato make sure as often as possible,that there is no situation They haveplanned out seets and homes,nguage and emotions, even thegobal tempo that drives al of it,only for that puose Everywhere

dfferent realms are made to sideby each other and be ignored Thenoral situation is ths absence of asaton

o get orgazed means: to un-derstand the situation and not mere- challenge it To take sides withinit Weavg the necessary material,emotional, and politica solidarities.his is what any strike does in anyoffice, in any factor his is what

ny gang does Any undergroundany revoutonary or counterrevoutionary party o get orgaizedmeans to give substance to the siuation Maing t rea, tangibe.

Reality s ot capitalist.Our postio withn a stuation

detrmes our need to become al-ies, and for that reason to establishsome ines of counicaton, some

wider current or tendency. turnthose new lnks recogure the situ-ation We ca the situation that weare in loba Civil War here thereis no loner anythng that can tthe confrontation between the opposng forces ot even the law, whichcomes ino py as one more form ofthe generazed corontation.

The We that speaks here is not adefnabe, isolated We, the We of a

group t is the We of a position Thispotion is asserted currently as adouble secession first a secessonfrom the process of capitaist valorzation, then secession from all thesteriity imposed by a mere opposi-tion to empire (eraparliamentaror otherwise); a secession thereforefrom the eft. Here secession means

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less a pratical rfusal to commucat tn a postion to Jorms ocoqcatin s intense tat wenput into practice tey snatc om t eemy most ofits power pt it briefly sc a positon borrowssuen oce fom te Back Paters colective inng alls rom te German Auonon, ee oses ante art o saboage from te Britis neouites tecareful coice of wos from raica feminists massselreuctions fom te Itaian autonomiss a

arme oy from te une 2 MovemetFom ow on a friensip is poitical

Proposition IThe unlimited escalation of control is a hope-

less response to the predictable breakdownsof the system. Nothing that is expressed in theknown distribution of political identities is ableto lead beyond the disaster

Therore we begin by withrawing 1m

them. We contest nothing we demand nothing.We constitute ourselves as a force, as a materia

force as an autonomous material orce withinthe Global Civil War

This ca sets out its conditions

SchiuHere a new weapon of crow ispersa a kin of

wooe fragmentaon enae is beig teste. ereit is propose tat emostrators bockng affc re

ceive twenyfive year setences e Israeli army isboi h os pmt co t ;paica eers fo a oe t word oarve a te es isoeries bot friale �uble in meos o eliminae bversives It oappear at e art of wouning � nrng one tofrigen a unre as reace ew egts en of cose ere's·errorm t i "ay of

fnce comtte tntional by an inivil oa grop agat one or ore c ories teir intutions o ter popations a aiming at teaening an/or seriosy uermng or esoying te poica economic or socia sructres oa counry. ats te efitio of te uropeaComssion. I te Ute tates tere are moreprisoners tan armers

As i is reorgaize an progressivey recap

tre pubic space is blakete wit cameras. It isot ony tat surveiance s now possibe i is ais as become patiulrly acceptabe A orts ofists of suspects ciculate rom eparment to epartment an we can barey make out teir pabe uses. Protecte by e poce gags of paraaries replace te posions once e by gssipan snitcs fgues of aoter era A former eaof te CIA oe of ose peope wo on e opposingsd, get orgaze rater ta get ingnan writs

n Le Monde: More ta a war against terrorismwat is at stake is te etension of emocracy tote parts of te [Arab a Muslim] wor tathreate ibera civiization te consructio ante efense of wic we ave worke for trougou te 20t century rng te First an te teecon Wor War folowe by te Co War ot ir Worl War

Notg socks s abou is notng catces usuawaes or aicay alters or feeng towar ifeWe were born nide e catasope an we ave

esabise a sange an cmforable eation ot it l a tay Fo as og aswe a ememer ter as no nesbesiesa ote Globa qv Wa We ave ben raise

as surviors as mhi1e f urvvl We ave beease i t iea ta ife cosists i contily. oig o alk infferce truseamog oter boies w wak ientical

wo

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tume and get cuhed in tunn the end the nly nvety fthe peent epch i that nnef t can e hdden ymethat n a ene eveyody nowit Hence the mt ecent vilehadenng f the ytem t mtive ae eped t wuld epnte t wh them away.

Many wde why n pat f the eft faeft n knwnpltcal fce i capale f p

ng t cue f event."W til live n a demcacy

fm the Fdatin Anachitethe cunci cmmunt theTtkyit fm ATTA andthe lawmake tat fm theame putatin they peadthe ame deet

litic f them i what i etted ad dne and decided

etween en The aemly that

gathe them al that gaeal human eng n tctonom he epectve old, fmthe deal plitical tuatn heecnmy the ecnc phee

ght? They canwnde f a lngtme nthing that eeed withithe famewk ftadtina plitcwll eve e ae ti the advance fthe deet ecautadna pltic pt o the dee

t is now consere ntu

r fo eerone t h

fllw lgi-cally it h · a necey andi m p l em a n a g e -ment f althat wa leftutide theaemly fall that wadteminedt e nonpolitcl and

rort with the wor

bse on the ie tht ech

eronh er wn it.ht such fe consit

in seres of cics goo

or ht the cnac

When we ay thit' nt n de tadvcate etapaiaentay pltc a antidte t a

decacy. The pp

eqte eitomi�es re

tions between niiu

n tht sc eptomze

1irte t nguge i othing ut ans of r- whch then

e c e

famly uine pivate life leiue pa-te cultue etc.

r1ng t n greement

ua manfet We e the eftgned a cupe f yea ag y althe cia utce cectve dcia mveent t e fd inance epee wel enughthe lgc that f tty yeaa dven etapaaentayptc we d nt wnt t ezepwe ethw the tate etceay we wnt t e ecized

a vaid epeenttive.Wheeve the clacal cn

cepn f plitc peval theame imtence peval pp-ite the diate That t m-ptence i widely dtutedetween a vaiety f eventuallyeconcille dentitie changenthing aut t. The anact

Tat i hw the cacal def-initin f plitc pead thedeet: y atacting humanfm thei wld y dicnnectng them fm the netwkf thing hat wd fetih-e emtn pace lda-tie that make up thei wld

the peceptual wd andthat give them thei pecicutance

laical plitic i the gli u tagng f die i eile

But the aemly f pliticaldivdualte ly makthe deet that it i. Thee i nhuman cety epaated fm

the u f human and nnhuman eing Thee i a plualityf ealm. Of ealm that ae allthe me eal ecaue they aehaed. And hat ceit.

he plitcal wld n tuthi the inteplay etween dfe-ent ealm the allance etweenthe that ae cmpatile and the

cnfntatn etween the thatae iecncilale

Theefe we ay that the cental plitical fact f the lat thtyyea went unnticed Becauet tk place at uch a deep levelf eality that t cant e calledpolticl withut nging aut aevlutin in the vey ntin fthe plitical Becaue thi level feaity i al the ne whee the divin i elaated etween what taken f eality and what i ntT cental fact i the tumph fEitential iealim The factthat t i nw cndeed natualf eveyne t have a apptth the wld aed n the deathat each pen ha he own leThat uch a lfe cnit n a eief choce, gd ad That each

pen can define heelf y anenemle f qualtie f popee,that make he thugh he cntiua alancng f the ppetiea unique d eplaceae eingThat the contct adequately epit-mize elatn etween idvidu-al and that epect epitmze allvitue hat langage i nthigut a men f avng at an agee-ment That in ealty the wld

cmped n ne de f thingt anage and n the the f ance f elfaed ndivdu-al wh in tn have a egettaletendency t tun themlve intthng etting themelve ecmemanaged

Of cue cyicim yne f the pble featue f the

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inite clincal diagnoses of Existenal Liberalism. t aso includes depression, apathy, imundeficiency - every imune system is itrinsicay coective dishonesty, judicia harassment,coc disatisfaction, deed affection, isoaton, iusions of citizenshp, ad the oss of algenerosi ty

Existential iberaism has propagated its desertso we tha even he most sincere Leftists expressheir utopia with its very terms "We will rebuidan egaliarin society in wch each peson makesher contributon and from which each person getsher needs me om it. As far as individua desires are concerned, it coud be egaitarian if eachperson consumes in proportion to the effors she isready to contribute Nauray it wil be necessaryto redefine the method of evaang the efforscontributed by each perso," write the orgizers of the Aeaive, Antcapiaist, ad Anti

war Vage agans the G8 summit in Evian in atext entted Wn Cptlm nd g Lo llH n Aold! Here is a key to the triumphof EmpIre: maaging to kee in the shadows, tosurround wth silence t tn on wch itmaevers, the eld pon which it fights the decisive battle that of mpuatig feegs, of definng he limits of he perceptible n sch a way prevetively parayzes any defense at the verymoment of its operation, and runs the very d ofa counteroffeive. The vctory is won whenever

the militant, at the end of a hard day of PoiticaWork, sumps down n front of an acton movie

e hey see us withdraw from the paiulrituas of cassical poiics the genera assemby,the meeing, the negotiato, the protest, the demand when hey hear us speak about he perceptible ream raher than about work, Ds, pensions, or freedom of movement miitants give us apitying ook. Poor gus," they seem to say theyare resigng themseves to mnorit poitics, theyhave retreate to their ghetto, and renounced

any widenng the strugge They wi never bepart of a movemet" But we believe exacty theopposite it is he who resig themselves to minority poitics by speakig their langage of faseobjectivity, whose gravity consiss of nothg moretha repeion and rhetoric. Nobody is fooled bythe veied contempt with which they talk abotthe worres of The Peope, and wch aows themto go from the unempoyed perso to the iegal

immigrant, from the striker to the prosituewtot pttng tml t their cotempt is hat obvious. Ther wil to wdn ttgl is nothing but a way to flee from towo ldy t, and, above a, from hosehey woud dread iving with And fiay, it is

they who are oath to admt the poitical meaing of sesivity, who have to rey on ntmntly as ther pitif drivg force l in all, weprefer to start fro sma and dense nucle thanfrom a vast and oose network We are famarenough with that spineessness

Proposition hose ho oud respond to the ur

gency of the situation ith the urgencyof their recton ony add to the suf

focationTheir manner of inteention ofgtton, points to te· rest of their poiticsA for us the urgenc of the situ

ation iberates us from a considerations of egaity or egitimacy hichhave in any case become uninhabitbe

That it might take a generationto uid a vicorious revoutiona

movement in a its breadth does not fghten us We thin about this ithserenity Just as e sereney recognizethe cmn nature of our existenceand of our deeds

Schoum

We have known and are sti famiiar with,the temptation of activism

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The counter-suits, thecampaigs against evictons,aganst new secuity laws nd thebuldng of new psons, the occupatons, the NoBorder camps;the parade of all of ths. he progressve dsperson of colectvesrespondng to the same dspersion f actvty Rug after theoveents

Feelng our power o adh6', ut at the prce o reng each tme to a underlyg poweressness Payng ahi'g rce for each campagnLettng t consume al the energy that w have Then movngto he xt one, each tme moreo of reath, more exhausted,

mor sadened An lttle y tte, thoughemandg, tough enouncng, we ecoe ncapale ofsensng what s supposed to ethe ass of our engagement, thenaure of the urgency that fowshough us

Actvsm s the first refexThe tndd response to the urgency of the present stuaton

The perpetua molizaton the name of urgency s watour goverents and our osses have made us used to, evenwhen we fght aganst them

Forms of lfe dsappear everyday; plant and anma species,human experencs and countless relatonsps between lvng engs and ways of lvngBut o feelng of urgency s teless to the speed of these extnctons than to ther rreversbty,and even more to ou natyto repopulate the desert

he actvst molzes hersefaganst the catastrophe But onyto· prolong t Her haste consues what ltle of the worldremans he actvst swer to

urgency remans fthful tothe regme of urgency, wthno hope of getting out of t onteruptng it

he actv

polce Meanwhle, a few meteraway, some of us fght the lneof n, throwng back teargas casters, rppng up pavng

stones to makest wants to bee v e r y w h e r e She goes everywhere tha tthe rhythm ofthe reakownof the machneeads her Ev-

<he roblem with demands

is that. by formUlating needs in

projectes, prepang Molotovcocktas wthottes foundn th trash andgsone fromo v e r t u r n e Vespas When

terms that make them adibLe

to power they say nothing aboutthse needs and hat real trans

forations of the rld they

reqire 'hus demandg free

erywherebrngspragatc

shehern

puLic trasportation says noth

ingof or need to ravel rather

than be traported of or need

compelled tocomment nus the mltantspeak of avenv e n t v e n e s s , for slowness

the festve energy of her op-

positon to the catastropheWthout a doubt, the actvstgets st one But she neverdevotes hersef to thnngabout how t s to e doneHow to hnder concretey theprogress of the esert, n order to estalsh nhabtaleworls wthout wang

We desert atvsm Wthout forgettng what gves t

strength: a certan presencewtn the suaton An easeof moement wthn t A wayto appehend the struggle; notfrom a mora or eologcalge, ut teccally tactcally

Ol mltantsm provethe opposte example heres somethng amazng aoutthe cluelessness of mltants nvarous stuatons We remember ths scene from Genoaabout 50 ltants of the Trostkyist Lge Commnt Roltonn wave ther red fagslabee "100% on the Left"They are motoness, telessThey shout ther pre-approvedsogan, srounded y peace

tursm, mndlessness her

pretext s that the condtons arenot rght We say that notngwas lackng, that everythng wasthere except them

What we esert n ltantsms ths asence from the stuatonJust as we desert the nconsstency to whch actvsm condemsthem

Actvsts themselves feel thsnconsstency And ths s why, pe

rodcay, hey turn towad therelders, the miltants hey borrowther strateges, terans of struggle, slogans What appeals to themn mltantsm s the consstencythe structure, he loyaty they ack so the acvsts revert to oldnew dsputes and deand "ctzenshp for a," free movemenof people," guaranteed ncome,"free pulc transport"

he prolem with demnds sthat, by fomulatng needs n termsthat make them audbe to powerthey say notng aout those needs

and what real transfomatons ofthe world they reque Thus, deanng ee publc traspotaton says notng of our need totravel rather tha be transpoted

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of or need for owne n addition, demandoften end p making the rea coflict Demanding free pbic tranportation ony ow thepread of faredodg techniqe, at eat forthi pecific mie Cag for the free movemet of peope merey mea avoiding the ieof a practica ecape from a tightenng of controFighting for a garanteed income i, at bet to

conde orelve to the ilion that an ameioration of the wort of capitam i neearyto get ot of it. hatever form it take e mpae i away the ame: the bective reoremobiized may be revotionary yet they remanimbedded in a program of (radical) rformm.Under the pretex of overcomg the aternativebetween reform and revolton we nto atimey ambiguity

The preent catatrophe i that of a word activey ad nabitabe A ort of methodicadevatation of everything that remained iveabe n the reation of hman with each otherand with or enviroent Capitaim codnot have trimphed over the whoe panet ifit wa not for teciqe of power pecificaly poitica techiqe there are a kd oftechiqe: with or withot too, corpora ordicrive, erotic or inary the dicipneand mechanim of contro and it i pointeto denonce the ign o tcnc. The poiti

ca tecqe of capitaim conit frt of ain breaking the attachment trogh which agrop find the mean to prodce, in the amemovement, thecondition of itbitence andit exitencen eparatinghman commnte fromi n n m e r a b e

thing toneand metapant tree thathave a thoandprpoe, goddji, wild ortamed anma,medicine andp yc h o a t i v ebtance am

et, machine, and a the other being i theirream that coexit with hman

Rnng a comnity, eparating groom their mean of exitence and from theknowedge ed to them it i poitica ratonaity that dictate the impoition of the commodity a the mediator of every reation Jta it wa neceary to iqidate the witche

whch i to ay heir medicin knowedge awell a the movement between the viibe and

inviibe word wich they promoted " J9d�Yr'

peaant have to renonce their abiiy to �o.their own eed in order to maintan the gp o

Jmtitiona agribinee and other ogazation of agricltra poitc.

.,

Thee poitica techqe of capitaim fin'

their maxima point of concentration in contporary metropoe. Metropoe are preciey thearena where, in the end, there i amot nothingeft to reappropriate. A miie in which everything i done o the hman ony relate to tefony create itef eparatey from other formof ife bmp into or e them withot evermtng them

On the bai of thi eparation, and to make itdrabe even the mot mnor, tentative, attempta iving otide comodiy reationhip habeen made crimina The fied of egaity ha ongbeen confated with the mtipe contrat that

make ife impoible throgh wage abor orefempoyment, chariy work or litantm.At the ame time a thi fied become increa

'

ingy a bitabe everything that cancontribte tomakng realife poibeha been traformed nto a

crimeere a

tivit laimthat "No Onei ega" wemt recognize exactthe oppoitetoda an entirey ega e

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istence ould be an entirely sumissive existence.

We have tax evasion, fctitiousemployent, isider trading,fake bakruptcies, welfare fraud,embezzlement, forgeries, andvarious other scams. There aretrips across borders in airplane

luggage compartments, tripswithout a ticket nside one cityor within a country. Faredodg-ing and shoplifting are the dailypractices of thousands of peoplein the metropoles Ad thereis the illegal practice of trdingseeds that has safeguarded manyplant species There are evenmore functional illegalities in thecapitalist worldsystem. Someare tolerated, other encouraged,d others still that are eventually pnshed An improvisedvegetable garden on a wastelandhas every chance of being flattened by a bulldozer even before its first harvest

If e add up the sum of thespecal laws and custoary reg-ulations that gove all of thespaces that anyone can traveltough in one day, there is not asingle life that can be assured ofimput as, codes, and juridical decisions exist that make

every existence pushable itwould merely be a matter of appling them to the letter

We are not ready to bet thatwhere the desert grows therealso gows sometng that cansave us Nothing can succeedthat does not begin tougha reak with everytng thatmakes this deser gow.

We know that building a power of any scae will tae meThere are many things that we nolonger know how to do In fact,those of us who benet from themodernzation and the education dispensed in our developedlands barely know how to make

anytng ourselves. Even gathering plants for cooking or mediine rather than merely for decoration� is regarded as archaic atbest, at worst as a ice hobby .

We make a simple observation everyone has access to acertain quantity of resources and

knowledge made avaable bythe simple fact of living in thselands of the old world, and wecan commuize them

The question is not whetherto live with or without money, tosteal or to bu, to work or not, buhow to use the money we haveto increase our autonomy fromthe comodiy sphere And if weprefer to steal instead of workngor produce for ourselves steadof stealing, it is not due to a con-cen with purity It is because thefows of power that accompaythe fows of comodities, thesubjective submssion that conditions our access to suvival have

become too expensivehere would be many in

appropriate ways to express

what we envision we neitherwant to leave for the countryside nor reappropriate ad accumulate ancient knowledgeWe are not merely conceedwith a reappropriation ofmethods Nor with a reappopriation of knowledgeIf we put together all thaknowledge, those teciquesand all the nventiveness dis-

played in the feld of activism, we would still not get arevolutionar movement t isa question of temporality. Aquestion of creating the conditions where an offensive cansustan itsel without fadingaway, of establisng the ma-terial solidarities that allow usto maintain it

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We beleve there s no revoluton wthout the consttuonof a coon ateral foce Wedo not gnore the anachronsof ths belef We know t s bothtoo early and too late, whch swhy we have te We havestoped watng

Proposition VWe set the point of re

versal the way out of thedesert the end of Capital inthe intensity of the link thateach person manages to establish betwen what shethinks and how she livesContra to the uphoders

of Existential Liberalismwe rese to view this as a pvate matter an individual issue a question of character On the contrary we start from the certainty that this -link depends onthe onstruction of shared ealms of placingctive means in cmmon

Scholium

Evey day each person s enjoned to accept thatt s nave, out of date, a pure and sple absence of

culture to ask about the link beween lfe and houghWe consder ths a sypto hs s notg but aneffect of the bera redefnton, so fundaentalyodern, of the dstncton between the pubc andthe prvate berals has put forward the prncplethat everythng ust tolerated, that everythngcan e though so long as t s recognzed as bengwthout drect consequences to the current structureof socety, of ts nsttutons, and of the power of theState Any dea can be accepted; ts expresson shouldeven be supported, so long as socal and state rules areaccepted In other words, the freedo of thought ofthe prvate ndvdual ust tota as ust be herfreedo of expresson, n prncple; ut she ust notdesre the consequenes of her thought as f as t concerns colectve fe

berals ay have nvented the ndvdua but tnvented her utlated fro the getgo he beral ndvdua who has nevr expressed herself better thann the pacfst and cv rghts oveents of today, ssupposed to be attached to her freedo nsofar as her

fredo does no cot her to anythng, andcertanly does notry to pose tse upon others he stupd precept y freedo ends herethat of another begns s receved today as anunassalabe ruth Even ohn Stuart Ml thoughone of the essental factators of the beral con

ques notced that an unfortunate consequence

follows one s pertted to desre anythng, onthe sole condton ha i is no desired oo inensely,that t does not go beyond the ts of the prvate, or n any case beyond those of pul eeexpression.

What we call Exstental berals s theadherence to a seres of facts and deas, whchat ther core, show an essental propensty towd betrayal e have becoe accustoed to

functonng at a sort of low gear n hch weare releved of the very dea of betrayal hseotonal lower gear the guarantee we haveaccepted for our becongadult Along wth,for the ost zealous, the rage of an eotonaselfcontanent as an unassalabe deal evertheless, there s too uch to betray for thosewho dece to keep those proses, no dobtcarred snce chdhood and whch they conte to eleve

Aong beral tenets s behavng ke anowner, even towards your own experences

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ut, where each persn has t cnan herself, andevrydy experences them as such usnesses(and what sn't a usness these day?), ght cls,wlng alleys and gf crses, msems, etc. Snceeveryne kws wat these places are aut, theral questn s t knw why despte tat theycan stll e s ppular. Why wsh fr, alwas andave all, that nng appens that mghprvkestrrngs tha g t deep? Ot f hat? Becausef despar? Becase f cyncsm? Or ese ecaseyu can feel the delght f eng smewhere whlent eng there, f eng there whe eng nally sewhere else; ecase what w are at asewld e preserved t the pnt f n lnge evenavng t exst

These are ethca questns that mst f crsee aKed and ave a, they are thse that we fndat the very heart f the plcal hw t respnd t

emtnal neaatn and the ptental effectsf decsve thghts? And als hw d mdern s-cetes wrk wh these netralatns, r rather,hw are they made nt essental cgs n ts cntual fnctng? Hw des the materal effectvenessf the empre relate t ur predspstn twardgvng up, regardess f r cllectve experences?

The acceptance f these netalatns canf crse g hand n hand wth grea creatve effrts. Y can expermen up the pnt f mad-ness, n cndtn that yu are a sngle

appear frghtfult t s a frght capale ffreeng us frm fear Callng nt qstn thur ndvdal mts and the rders drawn y ·cvatn can e a lfesaver The exstencef any real cmmty necesstates a certanphscl danger: when emtns and thugtsare n lnger ascrale t any ne persn,when nteractns are recvered n whch feel-ngs, deas, mressns, nd emns are ex-changed careessy. It mst e understd thatcmmty per se s nt the slutn t s tsdsappearance, everwhere ad always, ha h prblm

We d nt perceve humans t e slatedfrm each ther r frm the ther egs f thswrd; e see them nd y mtple cnectn hat we have leaed t deny. Ths denalallws the lckng f emtna exchanges

thrgh wch these mltple cnectns are experenced Ths ckage, n tu, s neces-sary t make s accstmed t the mst ne-tral, he mst lfeless, the mst average feelngs;that whch makes s lng fr vacatns, lnch-reaks, r evens t as a gdsendthat st say smethng ust as netra, average, andfeless ut freely chsen. The mperal rder,wch s partcuarly Westered, s nrshedthrugh ths redm

We wll e tld y advcatng the

creatr, and that y prdce the prff ths sngularty n pulc (yur wrks).Y c stl knw what the strrngs are,t ny n cndn that yu exper-ence them alne, and that y are ltedt passng them ndrectly Y wlltherey e recgned as an artst r as ater, and, perhaps 1 y are plcallyngagd, y wl e ale tss as manyttes nt he cean as y lke, wth the

"D migh ha experence f sharng ntense em-tns, y g aganst wat lvng engs requre t ve, namely gentlenessand calm qte exensve these days,lke any scarce cdty. If wha smeant y ths s that ur pn f vews nmpatle wth athred lesure, then even wnter sprts jnkes

iing a gene

hing n de

f gr knw

hi eer han

aU he iizen f he wrd

cear cnscence f ne wh sees frther and whhas warned thers.

Lke many, we have experenced that emtnsstuck nrnally trn ut adly they can even turnnt ympm The rgdtes we serve n ursevescme frm the prttns tht every persn eeveserse lged t pt up n rder t defne her wnlmts, and t cntan wtn her self what must ntrst frth When, fr sme reasn r ther, thesepartns happen t crack d reak, then thgs cme p tha mght e peasant, whch may even

mgh adt hat t wuld e n gretlss see ll sk rsrs rn and t re

trn tha envnment t the marmts On hether hand, we have nthng aganst the genlness that any lvng eng, as a lvg eng,cares wthn tse It mght e that vg sa gentle thng." Ay lade f grass knws thsetter than all the ctens f the wrld

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ProosItions V - VIITranslated for us English by Lawrnce Jarach (in communication ith the authors)

Proposition V

To ay moral preoccupation, to any concern forprity we sbstthe ollective elaboration of a

( .

tatg Ony thati h

impedes the increase of orstrenth is bad It folows fom s resoltion thateconomics· and politics are no longer distingishable e are not afraid of foming gangs, and canoy lagh at those who will decry s as a mia

Scholium·We have been sold ths le: that what is most par

ticlar to s s what itingih us rom the common. e experience the conary every snglaritis felt in the annr and the intnit with hich a

being brings into existence something commonAt root i is here that w begi, here we ineach other at is most singlar n s calls to beshared

Bt we not ts not oy is what we have to share obvios incompatble with te dominantorder, bt this order strves to track down any kindof sharing for which it does not ay down the rles.For istace, te barracks, the hospital, the prison,the asylum, and te retirement home are the oy forms of collecve livg allowed i the meopoleThe nra condition is the isolation of everyone itheir private ubicle Ts is here they retu endlessy, however strng the repulsion they feel, however geat the enconters they make esewher.

e have kown these conditos of exstence, ndwe will never re to them. hey weaken us toouch. Make us too vulnerabe. Make Us waste away

In primal cultures, oation was the harshest sentence that coud be pased on a ember of the ommunt It is now the coon conditon. Te rest of

the disaster folows gcaly It is on acont of tsnrrow idea that everybody ha of ther own homethat makes it seem naral to leave the street to the police. he orld culd not have ben made so uabitable, nor socii so controld - from malls to brs,

from boardrooms to bakooms - had not everonebeen preViously granted the seter of privte space

n ruin away from codtions of existencethat mtlate s, we fnd squats; or rather, the international suat n In s consteation of occ

pied spaces where, despte many limits, t is possible to experiment wth fors of collective assemblyotside of contol, we have kon an increase ofpower. e have orgzed orselves for elementary survval scrounging, teft, collective work,

common meals, sharng of skills, equipment, loving clinations and we have found forms of polticalexpression concerts, deos, direct actions, sabotage, leets

"

Then, lttle by little, we have seen or surroundings turn ito a ili and rm a mlieu into a ne have seen te nactment of a mora code replace

te elaboration 6f a stategy e have seen norms solidi, reputons develop, metaphors begin to n-in, d everytng beome so prita The colctive adventue ed nto a gloomy cohabitato

A hostile tolerance grasped al reaions W apt.And in the end wat was believed to be a counterworld amounted to nothg but a reflection of thedomnant world the same games of personal vaorization in the realm of theft, fts, polical or radicalcorrection the same sordid lberalism in emotionallife, the same spats over acess an territory, he sameslit between everyday life and politcal activit, thesame identity paranoia And for the luckiest, the luxu of periodically feeing fom their ocal poverty byitroducg it elsewhere, someplace stil exotc

e do not impute these weakesses to the sqat for e neither deny nor desert it e say thatsqatting will ony make sense again for us on thecondition that we claiy the basis of the sharig weengage in In the sqat, like anywhere els, the collective creation of a strategy is the ony aternativeto retreating into an dety, either through assilation or the ghetto

O the subject of strateg, we have learned ll the lessons from the traditon of the defeated. e

remember the begngs of he labor vement.The essons are near to sBecause what was put into pracce n ts initial

ps relates irtyo how we are livng, to what wean to pt into practice today The buidg up ofwhat was to be nr caled th labor movement rstrested on t sharg of criminal pracces he secretstrke ds, the acts of sabotag, th secret societies,the class violence, the first fors of unemploymentsurnce seen in the recovery of individual clear

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eadedness,that wee dveloped with e �o-ne f tir illegal and tagoistc nae.

In e United tates te ovela beeen f6ns ofworkers" rgaatio an orae crime is mosttanible Th poe of the Aicaoletaians atthe beging of the inda e sted frothe develent wn the cmy o worker o a oe f den ad talaon aganst·

Ca ;Seell as fro e exitece of cldesneoarities The pereual ansositn of worker

into crimnal ca f ssemaic ontrol the mor-alizato ganst an for of utonoous rgzatonAnyng that wet byond the idea of thehonest worker was margnaized as ggstersmUltmately, thr as th afia on he one hadand the uons on the other,oth proucts of a recipocal amputaton

n Europe, the inteaton of workers' orga-ations into the state management apparaus the

foundaon of social democracy was pai for wththe renunciation of the least abiy to be a nuisance.Here too the emergence of the laor movement wasa mater of material soldarites,oan gent need

for communsm. The Maisons du Peuple were theast refuges for ths cousion betweet h e need for mmediate

comuniza tionand the sate

gic require-

ents oap r a c t c a limplemen

taton of the

e v o -lutio

a processThe labor ove

m e t then developed as aprogressve searaton ewen the cooperave cur

rent, econoc che cut off from ts strategc rason d' e and the politcal and uion forms workingn the terra of el�orals or jont management.It is fom the abandoent of any secessiost amtt ts absurdiy as born: the Left The clmax isreached when unionists denounce any resort to iolence,loudly proclaiming to all who sh to hethat they will collaborate with the cops to ontolroters. The ecet increase of policng functions ofthe Ste prves oy this: that Weste societes

/

have lost all abilty to cohee They are oly able tomage the nexorable decay That is to say,essentially,to prevent ny reconsolda1on,to crushnyone who stands out Anyone who desets Any-one who gets out of line

Bu there is nothing to be done The condionof inner rui of these societies allows an increasinumber of cracks to appear The continual reno

vaion of appearances can acheve nothng there,wrls form Squats, communes, groupuscules,arios, all to extact themselves fom captalst desolaton Most often these atempts come tonotng or die fom autarky,for lack of having establsed contacts,appropiate soldes Also fola of conceiving of emselves as fultime parti-ss in he Global ivl ar

Bu all of these ae consoldatons arestll nothng comped to mas re wth the con-

stantly defered dese t drp out. o ave In ten yeas,beteen two censuses, a hunded

thousand people have diappeared in Great BrtanThey have boarde a truck,bought a tcket,droppedaid,or gone underound Tey have disafilatedey have left We would have liked, n ou disailiation to

have had a plac to reoin, a side to take,a road tofollow

Many who leave get lost nd never arrve.Our strategy s erefore the followng to estab

lish and maintain a eries of centes of desertn,ofpoles f secession,of rallying pots For runawaysFor those who leave A seies of places where wecan escae om the luence of a civlization hatis headed for the abyss

t s a mater of giving ourselves the means,offinding the methods wereby all those questonscan be resolved; questons whch when addressedseparately cn drve us to depression. How to dissolve he dpendences that weaken us? How toorganze ourselves so we no longer have to work?

How to settle beyond the toxcity of the metro pole without going Back To Naure? How to shut dwnnucle plants? How not to beforced to esot to psychiac pulverizaon when a fend gos mad or tothe crud remedies of mechanstc meicne whenshe flls ill? ow to live together wout mutulsuppession? How to take n the death of a com-rade? Ho to run Eme?

We know our weakesses we were bon and wehave grown up n pacifed societes,dissolved We

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have not had the oppotunity to acquie the tengththat oment ointene collective cofotation capovide. No the knowledge hat i lined to themWe have a poliica education to deveop togethe.Athoetcal and pactical educaton.

Fo t, we need location. Place whee we caogaie oueve, whee we can hae and develop the equi�d tecique ee we c le to

handle all that may pove neceay. ee we cancoopeate. Had it not enunced any political pe-pective, the epeimentation of the Bauhau, withl the mateiality d the igo it contained, woud

evokthe idea that we can ceate fo oelv pace-ime dedicated to the tnmiion of knowledge andexpeience The Back Panthe euipped themelewith uch place, to wich they added thei poitico-ilitay capaciy, the ten thoad fee luche theyditibuted evey day n thei autonomou peBefoe long,the fomed a teat o tangble to Pow

e that the Fed had to be ent i to maace them.oeve cotitute themelve a a forcekow

that they become pati of the global coue ofhotilitie. The quetin of the eot to o the en-cation of what i called violence doe not aie inuch a patian. And pacifim appea a a uppe-metay weapon the evice of Empie,along withthe contingent of iot poice and ounalit Theconideation that conce u ae the conditon ofthe aymetical conlict wcha been impoed nu; we mut conide the mod of appece nddiappece uitable fo each of ou pactice. Thedeonaion,the action wih ou fce aked,the idgnant potet: thee ae all uuitable foof tugglagaint the cent egie of donationThey even eioce it, feeding uptodate ioma

tion into the ytem of conol. t would eem to beju<ciu,in any cae, given that the flake of con-tempoay ubectivity extend even to ou eade(but alo fo the pepective of a lacmoe path

i which we have ucceeded i buying the leat im-

pottcitizen), to attack the matial devce athe·th e men who give them a face Ti i fo puelytategic conideation Theefoe, we mut tun tothe fo of opeation ditinctive to all gueillaanonymou abotage,unclaimed action,ecoue toeaily copied tecique, tgeted couteatack

Thi i ot a morl quetion about the newih wch we povide ouelve tthe eanto live d fight, but a tacticalqueton of the ewe give ouelve and the ue we ake of them.

Girgs Geldk

The expeion of capitalim in ou live i adne," a fiend once aid.

The point o i t etablh the mateial condi-tion fo a haed eceptivity towad pleaue.

Proposition On the one hand, we want to live communim;

on the othe,to pead anachy

SchlumWe ae living tough te othe ot extme

epaation The depein noality of the etopole, it lonely cowd, epee the ipoibleutopia of a ociety copoed f atom.

The mot exteme epaation eveal the ene ofthe od communsm.Comni i not a olitical o econic y-

tem Comunm can anage withot Mx. Co-um doen't give a daabout the S S R Andwe canot explain the fact that evey decade fo theat fifty yea ome have petended to edicoveStali' cime, cyig look at what comuni

i!" they did not ave the feeling that ealityeveytng puhe u thee

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The oly argument that ever stood agist commusm was tht we dd ot need it. d ertaily,uil recety ad here d there (as imited as theywere), there were stl thgs, lguages, thoughts,ad pces that were shared d tht edured; t·est eough of them ot to fade way. There erewords ad they were iabited. The refusa tothi aout, the refusal to brig up� the queston of

omuism had pratal rgumets Thse havebee swept away Th '80s, s muh s they endure,rema te traumtic pot of referece o this utimate purge Sice the al social reatos have become sfferig To the poit of redrig preferabeay aesthesia, ay isoati Ia sese, by the veyexess f its triumph, Existtia Lberism is what

is drvig us to the bri of commuismhe commuist questio about fgurig out

our reatoship to the word, to other begs, to ourseves It ocers he eborto of the iterpabewee differt words, abot th ommuntonbetwee them Not about the uiato of gobalspace, but about the nsttuton o wht s pereptblethat is to say the puriy of words I that sesecomuism is ot the exticto of al cofict it doesot describe a fi oitio of society ter everythig as bee said ad doe. For s aso toughcoict that worlds teract. " bourgeois sociey,where he differeces betwee me are oly dferees tht do ot relate to M sef, it is precsely

the true differees, the differ-eces of quality that are otretaied e omustdoes ot wat to cre-ate a colletive souHe wats to cretea soiety wherefse differees reemiatedAd those

fse dferees beigeimiated,a theipossbii tiesope to ruedifferees" Thus spoke odfried

It i obviQus, as

they im that he uesio of h sis e,o ht I eed, of h mes p my ord hasee reuced o the egy eoced cto ofpve prper, of wht belogs to me of whatis me Somethig beogs to me sofar as it joisthe ream of my usage ot by virtue o y uridia tite. Utmately, private property has o otherrealiy tha the forces that protect it So th questio

of ommuism is, o oe had, to do wa with thepolie, ad o the other, o eaborte modes of sharig d uses, amog those who live with each other It is the questio that is voided eveyday withgive me a brek!" ad htver, due" Commusm of course is ot gve It has to be cosdered,it has to be mde. Almost eveytg that opposesit boils dow to a expressio of exhaustio: "Butyou' ever make it It ca't work Humas arewht they re .. Ad is ready hard eough to iveyour ow e . Eergy is fite we ca't do everythig ut exhausto is ot a argumet It is acoditio

So omusm starts from the experiece of shrig First, from the sharig of our eeds Needs areot wht cptst rue has accustomed us to Needsre never bout nedng thns wthout t the sme tmeneedng worlds Each of our eeds is us, beyod alshme, to everyoe who experieces that lk Needis ust the ame of the reatioship tough whch apartiular pereivig beg gves mei to such

or suh eemet of its world hat is why thosewho have o worlds mtropoitsubectvities for iste haveothg but wms Ad that iswhy capitlsm, though t satis-

fies the ee or thigs ke othigese, oly spreads uvers dissatisfc

tio i order for it to do so it hast destroy words

By comusm we mea ertn dsplne o pyng t-

tentonThe practe of comusm, s we i it, e a

The Party Whe we oercomet obstace together or whe we

reach hi�e of sharig, we say� that we are buidig the Pary"

Certiy others, uowto us t preset, ae budig the Prty esewhere This

44 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed



call is addressed to them. No experience of ommusm at the preset tme ca survive wthou getg ogzed, tig oesef to other, takig sidesi crIses, wagg w "For the oases tat dispeselife ae wiped out whe we seek refuge them

As we uderstad t, the process of istitutigcommusm ca oly take the form of a collectio of of ommzo of akig commo such-dsuch space, suchaduch cotrapto, such adsuch koledge That is to sa, the elaborati of themode of shrig that attaches to them suectioitsef is merel a acceetor, a decisive momet i

ths process As we ited it, the Part is ot a orgaizatio here everthig becomes isubstatial bdit of tsparec d it s ot a faml hereeverthg sells lik a co b dit of opacit

he Pt is a collectio o paces, iastructures,commuzed methods, ad the dreams, bodies, murmurs, thoughts, desires that crculate amog those

places; the use o thos methods, the hrg of thoseifrastrucreThe otio of the ar respods to the ecess

of a miimal formalizatio, whch makes us accessible as wel as aOWig us to remai visibe tbelogs to the comuist wa· that we explai toourseves, to formuate the basis of our sharg Sothat the most rect arriva is, at the ver least, theequa f the edest

Lookg coser at it, the Par could be othigbut this: the formatio of iito as a forc The de

plomet of a chpelago of ords hat oud apoitca force be, der Emire, that did't have tsfarms, its scools, its m, its medces, its colecve houses, its editg desks, its pritig presses, tsdeliver vas, ad its bridgeheads i the meopoe?t appears more ad more absrd that some of us stilhave to work for Capita asde from the usual orkof ifiltratio of course

The offesve power of the ar derives from thefact that it is aso a power of prodctio; however, i essece, those reatoships are ol ell

relaoshps of productio

the fia aalsis, capitalsm cosists of othig more tha a reducto of all relatis ito re

atios of productio From busies to the fami,cosumptio itsef appears as aother episode ithe geera productio, the productio of oe.

The overthrowg of capitaism will coe fromthose who are abe to create the coditos for here of relto.

EOVCa mptTK

[Un rnsld W ony ho h snn sxcln h ghc]

Therefore the commusm we are takig about

s the exact opposte of what has bee hstorcaltermed Icommuism, hich was most otigbut sociaism, a form of moopoist state capitalis

Commism is ot made through the expaso ofew relo of roo, b rher her bolto

Not havig reatios of producto withi ourmieu or amog ourselves mes ever lettig thesearch for resuts becom more importat th paig atteio to the process, baruptg al covetios of value, ad watchg that we do ot discoect affectio d cooperatio

Beig attetive to wods, to ther perceptible coguratios, is exact what reders the isolato fsomethg lie relo of roo impossible the places we ope, aroud the meas we share, it isths favor that we seek, that e experiece To ameths experiece, we ofte hear about everthg e ig stead ofee, e refer to speak of commus for we caot pOib forget hat thereof ths eeom impes i terms of orgaizati, ad

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the short term,of political antagonismSo, the constructon o the Party, in its most vis

ible aspect, consists of the sharg or comunza-tion of what we have at our disposal. Comuzg a place eans this settng free its use, nd onthe asis of this liberaton, experimentng with refined,tensied,and complexfed relations If pri-vate property is essentially the discretionary power

of depriving any person of t use of th possessedthng,comunzaton can only mean deprivng theagents of Epe of that poss ssion �

From every side we oppose the xtor:of haing to choose between he offensive and the con-stctie,negativity and positivity,life and survial,war and the evryay We will not espond to it Weuderstand only too well how ths dismemberg al

teratv splits and resplits all existng collectves.For a force wch is deployed, it is ipossible to say

if the anlation of a device that harms it is a con

structive or offensive atter, if achieving dietary oredical autonoy consttutes an act of wr or subtraction There are crcustances, like a riot, nwich the ability to heal our codes considerablyaugents our ability to wreak haoc o can saythat armng ourselves woud not be pat of the ateial constituon of a colectivity? en we ageeon a comon strategy, there is no choice etweenhe oensive and the constructie obviously thereexists, eversituation,what increases our powerand what harms it, what is opportune and what isnot. And when the evidence is lcking, thee is discussion,and n the worst case, here is gabling

In a general way, we do not see how any-tng else but a force,a realitale to -vivethe total dislocation of capitalis

could truly attack it, up to the ery o-ment of its dislocaton.

Wen tat oment coes,it wll e amatter of actually turng he generalzedsocia colapse to our advatage,

to transform a coapse (likethe Argentne or the Soiet)nto a revolutionry situ-ation Those who pretndto separate aterial autonoy fom the sabotage ofthe Iperia acne showthat they wat neither.

t s not an objectonagainst communism that the

geatest experiment of sharing n the recent past wsthe henoenon of the Spash anarchst oementbe �een 1868and 1939 .

\

.

ProposonVIICommunis is possile at evey moent To

date what we call Histor is nothng ut a set ofroundabout means inented y huans to avert it.hfact that ths Histoy has foa god centuy now

come down to nothng but a vied accumulaton ofdisasters shows how the comUst ueson cano longer e put off. Ituit is hs defement that

we canot postpone.

ScumBuwhat do you actualy want at are you

proposing?" Tis kd o ueston ay appear to e

iocent But unfortunately these are not uestiosThey ae oaonal u

Referring to eery We that expresses itself to anuamiliar You eans rst wardg off the threatthat ths We soehow names e,that ts We sshough m Therey constuting the one who mere

ly ws downparticul ters thacanote attruted to anyoneas teir ownerSo, the ethodical organizaton of thecurrently domnant separation, terms e

allowed to crculate only on conditionthat they can show proof of an owner,of anauho Without wch they risk being in the ubdoman,and only that which is expressed by The

is permited anonymous difusion Ad then thereis his ystficaton: that caught the course of aword that displeases us, there would be proposals to make, alternaties to nd That we could,

in other words, excate ourseles from the situation we've een put n y discussing it a

dispassionate aer, with reasole

peopleBut no, there is nothng apartfrom the situation. There nooutside to the Global Civil WaWe are irreedialy h

Al w can do is elaborate astrategy. Share an anais of the

situation ad eborate a strategy within it This is the only posible

reoutionay We: a practica We, open

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and diffuse, of whoever acts along the same linesAs we write ts, Augst 200, we can say

that we face the greatest oensive o Capita of telast weny yers Ant-terrorsm nd the aboltonof the ast gans of he defunct labo movementhave created the prevaiing mood of a popuaon ockstep. Never have the mnaers of socieyown so wel from whch obstaes they are emn

cipated and whch means they hold They kow,for nstance, tat the planetary lower ddeclassacurenly (and from now o) ives in the metropo is too disarmed o ofer the sightest resistanceto its prograed ation Just as they knowthat from now on the couter-revolution they leadis nscribed i llions of tons o concrete, in thearctecreo so many ne tows. the logerterm it seems that the pan of Capital is o sparateout a nework o ghsecury ones on a gobascale, continuously lnked up with each other, ad

where te process o capitalist vaoration wouldencompass all the expressons o e in a perpeuaand udere way. s Iperial comfort zone,comprised o deterritorialized citiens, would forma kind of policed continuum where a more or lesscostant level of contro woud pr�vail, politically as well as biometric ay. As they ace the process of its pacificton, the rest of e world couldt ouris as a fo and, a same me, as agigtic Outside to civ e savage experimentsof forced cohbitaton eeen hstile encaves as ith n tking pace or decade� Isrel woud ethe md cial mageent to coe We do notdoubt ha � ea issue for Capta n a thi is re-consute soey in its n image from the gro p No matter what orm, d hoeve gh the pre.

We have seen wth genta tahe eccolapse o a whoe couny was no, fro tapoit of view, too gh a pre to pay.

In s context we are alied with al those hofee the tactical necessy of thse thee capagn:

1.

To prevent, by any d a eans, he reDpostion o the eft2 To advce, fro natua saste o sca

ovent, te process of unzaton, 't consructon of the Pary.

3. To brg secesson ght nto te vi ta setors ofth perial mace

1 Periodclly the Lef roted We enjoy it butit s not enough. We wtts ot to be defitvr

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remedale. May te speter o a reconcable opposition never again arse to cloud the nds o tose wokn thmsevs t be ncompaibe wth cataistuncons. Wat everybody admts today (but w westl remember it the day ater tomorrow?) s that thet s n ntegra art o the mechasms o neulzaton pecular to bral socey. he more the sociamplosion proves real, th more the Left invokes CvSocety. he more the polce exercse their arbrarywl wi ipunity, he ore the Let declares itselfto be pacist. The ore the State throws off its lastudiial oaties, te moreey become obedientctizens. The greater t rgen to appropiate themeans10 ur etee, te more he Let exhots usto wait and beg o t ediaon, not the protetion, f our mastrs. is the·eft that enjons us today,faed wth goverents wich stand openly on the rrain of socia wr to speak tuth to power, to wrteup ou grevce, to fo as, to sudy politaconomy FrUonBoua, the et has been

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nothng but tha �earty 6f Humanity, of theCitien, and of Citn Today this program coicids with a fy counterrevo-lutionary progam ha of mantaininthe esemble o ilusions that parlyzus The vocation of the Left is thereforeto expod the dream of what ony Em

pire c afford. It represents the ideals-

tic side of Imperial moderzation, thenecessary steamvave o the unbeaablepace of capitalism It is even shamesslywitten in the very publication of the FrenchMnisty of Youth, Eduation, d R s arch:'

"Fo now on, everyone kows that witht econcrete help of its itizes, the State wl ha eitherthe mes nor the time to crry on the wor tha cprevent our socty from explodin (Long to Act:the Gu t Commtment)

Defeatn the Left, which means keig the chan

ne of oca aecton contnuouy opn, is not olyneessary but is aso possible today. We witnss,while the Imperil stuctures become creasiglystronger, te nsition fro the old workerist Left(gravegger the Labor movemnt ough born it), to a new gbal, cura Lft, of whic it cabe said that Negis is the most adv1ed tThis new Left is still imperfectly eablshed o:reently neutered tiGlobaliation MveentThe ew lures they hold out are not ye effeve,whle the old ones are ong gone.

Our task is to rui the glob eft wheever itbecomes anes, to sabotage al of its ratmoments ethodically, eanig i te a weas n pratce. Thus ur sucess in ea ly lessin the spectacuar corontatons wte poice orin the daage iited on the organs f Stt andCaptal, tha the at that he spread f the'pratice of conontation peculiar t th Bac Blocto a the part of the emontraton scuttd the expected iumph of the Tute Banhe Even s, our faiur

was ot to hae own how to extend our positon in such a way that ths vct?ry in he streets ouldbecme somethng other than a specter rased sstatically since then by pacifsts.

he retreat of ths gobal Left nto te Socal Forums a withdrawal due to the fact that t wa efeate n the treet - s now what we must attack

2. From year to year the pressure ncreases tomake everything nctn As socal cybernetzationprogesses the norm situaton becomes more ur

�gent As a consequence, situatios of crisis'

mafunction multiply in a completelylogical way. Fro the point of view of

Empire, a power failure, a hurricane,or a social movement are all the sameThey are disturbaces They must be

manae For now, eanng on account'of o weakne, these siuatios of

terruption apar as moments n wichEmpire pops up, takes its place in themateriality of worlds, experiments with

new maagerial procedures t is preciselythere that t attaches itself m re rmly to the

populations it claims to assist. Epir alwaysdevotes itself to being the agent of returg the situation to norma Our tas, conversely{ is to make thetuaton of excpton eabe

We will genuiey sueed in blokig orporatesociety only on conditin that such a blockae is led

wi th desies other than those for a return to normaWhat taes place duing a strke or durin a natu-

al disaster is, in a way, quite simlar a interruption of the orgazed stability of our dependencies he

exisene of need (the ounist essence thatwhich essenally bnds us and essentiay separatesus is lad bare during each of them. The blaetof shame that normally covers t is torn up. Receptveness for encoters, for expermentation withther reatns to the world, to others, to oneslf, as

it mafests these moments, is enough to sweepaway any doubt about the pob of conusmAbout the need for conunism as el. What isnow required is our ablity to selforgaize, our ability by inediately orgai ourseves on the basis of or needs) to prolong, extend, and ltimtelyrender the stuation of exceptn efectie, againstthe teror upon which Impeial power rests. hs isparticuary strikng i scia moveents. Even theexpression oca moement seems to suggest thatwhat realy mtters s hat we are moving towards,

rather than whats happenng here d now Up tiow in al socia movements, there has been a prju-dice to avoid seing the time, whh explas whytey are never able to get together; rather they se

to chase each other away. Hence the particular texture, so voatle, of their socalit, where ay commit

ment appears revocabe. Hence also ther invariabe·dramatic ar a quick asent thanks to some popu-lar resonance highighted n the media next, due tois hasty aggegation, a slow but nevtable erosion;\

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movement, the last hadful of dehards o get acard fom this r a, d this or tha as�oa! ey opng to d an ogzational

"COnfmt to their comient But we are not look-ing for such ontiuity havn emses where wemight meet, nd a photocopier t it eaflets. heconuit we see is the one wch alows us, terhavng suggled for months, not to go back t

not to stat workg agai as before, to k d 1harm. Ad ths can only be buit dug m nts.It is a matter of puttig nto plac an ieite, ma-teial sharig, he consrction of a real n-ry ar machne, the constructone ry.

We must, as we wre-yig ognze urelveson thea uf OU eeds to mage to answeri tu the colectiv questos of eatig, sleeping,ng, long, creatg frms, coordatig ourforces - ad oneive a this as an portunity i hear aainst Epre

It is only in this wy, by inhabitig the disrbances of its vey progam, that we wi be abe to counter that economic iberalism which is ony the strictconsequence, the logica appication, of the Exisential Liberalsm that is accepted and pactced everwhere. o which each one is attached as f t were themost basic rght, icludg those who ould like tochallnge NeoLiberasm s s the way the Partywill be built; as a trail of habitable paes left behd byeach situatio of excepton that Empre encountersWe wl not fail to notice, then, how the subjectiviies d the revolutionry colectives become ess flaky,as they show what they're realy made of

3 Empre is nowadays manifest ough the con-stituton of to onopolies: on the one hand, the scentic onopoy of socalled obectve description ofthe word, d of tecques of expermentaton onit, and on the other nd the religious monopoly oftecnques of the sef, of the methods by which subectivites elaborate themselve a monopoly to whichpsychoanalytic practce s dectly related On the one

hand a relaton to the world pured of any relation tothe sef to the self as a fament of the world on theother hand a relation to the sef puied of y reationto the word to the word as it goes through me. So ithappens that sience ad religion, in the ·ery rocessof teaing each other apa, have created a space inwich Empie is perfectly fee to moe about

Of course, these monopoles are disibuted nvarous ways accordg to the zones of Empe I

the socalled developed lds, here relgius dis

course has lost this abity, th sciences constitte a discourse of tutto whch is attibuted the power tofouate the very

existene

of the collectivit. It is theeforepecisely here where we must beginto prompt secession.

Prompting secession from the sciences does notmean pQucig on tem as f o a citdel to conquer

or raze, but creasing the promnence of the faultnes than run tough them, sidng with those whoemphasize these lines, who attempt to ask hem.I the same way that rfts constantly plague the fasedensity of the socia, evey branch of the sciencesfor a battleeld saturated with stategies For along time the scientic commuty has managed togive itsef the image of a large united family, consen-sual for the most part, and anya respecting therules of courtesy. This was even the maor poiticaloperation attached to th existence of the sciencesconcealing the ternal spits, and exerting, fromthat smoothed over mage, an equaled uenceof terror. Terror towards he outide: the deprvation of the stats of truth for ay and al dscussionthat s not recogzed as scientic Terror towards

the inside: the polite but fierce dsqualificaion ofpotenti heresies. "Esteemed coeague..."Each science impements a seres of hypotheses

these hpotheses are so many deisions rgardgthe constructin of eity. Today ths is wely ad-itted. What s deed s the ethial sinane ofeach of these decisons, n what way they invovea certain lifeform, a certa way of percevig theworld (for instance, experiencing the evolution ofvarious begs as the unwndig of a genetic pro

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gram, or joy as a queston of serotonn).Coidered n ths way, scentfc languge gaes

seem made less for estabshng commuaton between those who use them, thn for excudg thosewho gnore them The rtght equpment n whchscentfc acvty s ensconced -aboratores, symposums, etc. cres n tself a dvorce betweenexperments and the words they may descrbe It s

not enough to descrbe the way lhe socaled core research s aways conected n some way to mltrycomerca nterests, nd how, recprocaly, thesenterests defne the contens, the vey prameters ofresearh To the extent that scence particpates nIperal pacfcaton t s rstly by cayg out onythose experments, tesng oy thoe hypotheses,that are ompatb wth the mantenance of the pevalng order Our capacty to run mpera Orders condtioned upon openng spaces for antagostexperments For thse experments to produce therreated worlds, we need such lad spas just as he

pluraty of these worl s needed for the smothered·tagonsms of scentic practce to be expressed

It s mportant tat the practtoners of the odmechantc and Pasteuran edcne rejon thosewho practce wha mght be caled tradonal med

cne all new age confuson asde The attahmentto researh needs to cease beng coused wt the judcal defense of the tegrty of the oratoryNonproductvst agrcuura practces need odeveop beyond organc labels Thoe who endurethe nsufferable contradctons of pubc eduaton,between the defense of good ctzenshp and theworkshop of the dffuse entrepreneurat, need to

become more and more numerous Cutre shouldn onger be able t oas about the contrbuons ofa snge nvetor

Allaces are ossbe evehereIn order to become effectve, the perspectve of

breakng the captast crcuts requres that secessons multply, and that they consodate

We wl be told: you are caught n an aternavewhch wll conde you n one way or another ether you manage to constute a theat to Empre, nwhch case you wl be quckly elated, or youwl not manage to constute such a theat, and you l have once agan destroed yoselves Thereremans oy to gamble on the exstence of anotheroutcome, a thn rdge, ust wde enough for us towal on, just enough for a thos ho a ha towak on t and ve

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