- CrimethInc. ex-Workers' Collective. Fighting For Our Lives An Anarchist Primer
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Date: 2008-05-28T23:25:00+00:00
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ABSOLUTELY

F R E E
fighting

for our lives

an anarchist primer

[ Overture: A True Story ]

We sat at desks in high school de-

We entrusted each other with our
tention rooms, against the worn
hearts and appetites, together

We used stolen calling card num-
brick of Greyhound bus stations,
composing symphonies of ca-

We played saxophones together
resses and pleasure, making love

We dropped out of school, got di-
bers to talk our teenage lovers

on disposable synthetic sheets in
in the darkness of echoing caves
a verb in a language of exaltation.

vorced, broke with our families and
through phone sex from telephones
the emergency treatment wards

in West Virginia.

In Siberia, we plotted impossible
ourselves and everything we’d known.

in the lobbies of police stations.

of unsympathetic hospitals, on

We wreaked havoc upon their gen-

In Paris, armed with cobblestones
escapes—and carried them out,
the hard benches of penitentiary
der norms and ethnic stereotypes

circumnavigating the globe with

We quit our jobs, violated our

We broke into the private pools
and parasols, we held the gen-
dining halls, and swore the same
and cultural expectations, show-

forged papers and borrowed money
leases, threw all our furniture out
and saunas of the rich to enjoy
darmes at bay for nights on end,
thing through clenched teeth, but
ing with our bodies and our rela-
to return to the arms of our friends.

on the sidewalk, and hit the road.

them as their owners never had.

until we could almost taste the new

with no less tenderness.

tionships and our desires just how
world coming through the tear gas.

In Montevideo, in the squatted

We sat on the swings of children’s

We slipped into the offices where

We communicated with each
arbitrary their laws of nature were.

township, we built huts from ply-
playgrounds until our toes were

our browbeaten friends shuffled

We fought our way through their

other through initials carved into

We wrote our own music and per-
wood and plastic sheeting, pirated
frostbitten, admiring the moon-
papers for petty despots, to draft
lines to the opera house and took
boarding school desks, designs
formed it for each other, so when
electricity from nearby power lines,
light on the dewy grass, writing
anti-imperialist manifestos on
it over, and held discussions there
spray-painted through stencils
we hummed to ourselves we

and conferred with our neighbors
poetry on the wind for each other.

their computers—or just sleep un-
twenty-four hours a day as to what
der their desks. They were shocked
onto alley walls, holes kicked
could celebrate our companions’

that world could be.

as to how we could contribute to

We went to bed early and lay awake
that morning they finally walked in
in corporate windows televised
creativity rather than repeat the

our new community.

until well past dawn recounting all

In Chicago, we created an under-
on us, half-naked, brushing our
on the five o’clock news, letters
radio’s dull drone.

In San Diego, when they jailed us for
the awful things we’d done to oth-
ground network to provide illegal
teeth at the water cooler.

posted with counterfeit stamps or

In borrowed attic rooms, we
speaking our minds, we invited our
ers and they to us—and laughing,
carried across oceans in friends’

abortions in safe conditions and

tended ailing foreign lovers and
friends and filled their prisons until

blessing and absolving each other

We lived through harrowing, ex-
packs, secret instructions coded
a supportive atmosphere, when
struggled to write the lines that
they had to change their policy.

and this crazy cosmos.

hilarating moments when we did
into anonymous emails, clandes-

the religious fanatics would have
things we had always thought im-
could ignite the fires dormant in
preferred us to die in shame and

In Oregon, we climbed trees, and

We stole into museums showing
tine meetings in coffee shops,
possible, spitting in the face of all
the multitudes around us.

tears down dark alleys.

lived in them for months to pro-
reruns of old Guy Debord films
love poetry carved into the planks
our apprehensions to kiss unap-

In the last moment before dawn,
tect the forests we had hiked and
to write fight foul and faster, my

of prison bunks.

In New York we held hands and
proachable beauties, drop banners
flashlights tight in our shaking

camped in as children.

friend, the old world is behind you
massaged each other’s shoulders as
from the tops of national monu-

We sheltered illegal immigrants,
hands, we dismantled power boxes
on the backs of theater seats.

our enemies closed in to arrest us.

In Mexico, when we met hopping
ments, drop out of colleges . . . and
political refugees, fugitives from
on the houses of fascists who were
freight trains, we traded stories

The scent of gasoline still fresh on
then gritted our teeth, expecting
justice, and adolescent runaways
to host rallies the following day.

In Quebec we tore up the high-
about working with the Zapatis-
our hands, we watched the new
the world to end—but it didn’t!

in our modest homes and beds,

way and pounded out primordial

We fought those fascists tooth,
tas in Chiapas, about floods wit-
sun rise, and spoke in hushed voic-

as they too sheltered us.

rhythms on the traffic signs with

We stood or knelt in emptying
nail, and knife in the streets, when

nessed from boxcars passing
es about what we should do next,
the fragments, and the sound was
concert halls, on rooftops under

We improvised recipes to bake
no one else would even confront
through Texas, about our grand-
thrilling in the budding conscious-
vaster and more beautiful than any
lightning storms, on the dead
each other cookies, cakes, break-

them in print.

parents who fought in the Mexi-
ness of our own limitless power.

song ever played in a concert hall.

grass of graveyards, and swore
fasts in bed, weekly free meals in

We planted gardens in the aban-

can revolution.

with tears in our eyes never to go
the park, great feasts celebrating

In Santiago, we robbed banks to
doned lots of ghettos, hitchhiked

back again.

our courage and kinship so we
fund papers of transgressive poetry.

might taste their sweetness on
across continents in record time,

our very tongues.

tossed pies in the faces of kings

and bankers.

We fought in that revolution, and
the Spanish civil war, and the

French resistance, and even the

Russian revolution—though not
for the Bolsheviks or the Czar.

Sleepless and weather-beaten, we

crossed the Ukraine on horseback

When the good intentions of lib-
to deliver news of the conflicts

erals and reformists broke down
that offered us another chance to
in bureaucracy, we collected food

I’m speaking, of course, of

fight for our freedom.

from the trash to feed the hungry,

broke into condemned buildings
anarchists—and when people

Tense but untrembling, we smug-
and transformed them into palac-
ask me about my politics, I tell
gled posters, books, firearms, fu-
es fit for pauper kings and bandit
them: the best reason to be a
gitives, ourselves across borders
queens, held the sick and dying
revolutionary is that it is simply
from Canada to Pakistan.

tight in our loving arms.

a better way to live. Their laws

We lied with clean consciences to
guarantee us the right to remain
homicide detectives in Reno, to
silent, the right to a public trial

We fell in love in the wreckage,
military police in Santos, to angry
by a jury of our peers (though
shouted out songs in the

grandparents in Oslo.

my peers wouldn’t put me on
uproar, danced joyfully in
trial—would yours?)—what

We told the truth to each other,

It’s true. If your idea of healthy human relations is a the heaviest shackles they
about the right to live life like
even truths no one had ever dared
dinner with friends, where everyone enjoys everyone else’s could forge; we smuggled our
we won’t get another chance, to

tell before.

company, responsibilities are divided up voluntarily and stories through the gauntlets
have reasons to stay up all night
informally, and no one gives orders or sells anything, then When we couldn’t overthrow gov-of silence, starvation, and
in urgent conversation, to look
you are an anarchist, plain and simple. The only question ernments, we raised new genera-subjugation, to bring them
back on every day without regret
that remains is how you can arrange for more of your tions who would taste the sweet
back to life again and again as
or bitterness? Such rights we can
interactions to resemble this model.

adrenaline of barricades and
bombs and beating hearts; we
only claim for ourselves—and

Whenever you act without waiting for instructions or wheatpaste, who would carry on
shouldn’t these be our central
built castles in the sky from
official permission, you are an anarchist. Any time you our quixotic quest when we fell or
concerns, not the minutiae of
the ruins of hell on earth.

bypass a ridiculous regulation when no one’s looking, fled before the ruthless onslaught
protocol and survival?

you are an anarchist. If you don’t trust the government, of the servile and craven.

For those of us born into a captivity
the school system, Hollywood, or the management to

When we could overthrow gov-

One of us even
gilded by the blood and sweat
know better than you when it comes to things that affect ernments, we did.

assassinated the President
of less fortunate captives, the
your life, that’s anarchism, too. And you are especially We stood, one after the other,

of the United States.

challenge of leading a life worth
an anarchist when you come up with your own ideas and decade after decade, century af-living of stories worth telling is a
initiatives and solutions.

ter century, behind the witness
lifelong project, and a formidable

As you can see, it’s anarchism that keeps things

Accepting no constraints
stand, and shouted so the deafest
one; but all it takes, at any
working and life interesting. If we waited for authorities from without, we
self-satisfied upright citizen at the
moment, to meet this challenge is
and specialists and technicians to take care of everything, back of the courtroom could hear

countenanced none
to contest that captivity.

we would not only be in a world of trouble, but dreadfully it: “. . . and if I could do it all over

When we fight, we’re
bored—and boring—to boot. Today we live in that world of within ourselves, either,
again, I would!”

fighting for our lives.

(dreadfully boring!) trouble precisely to the extent that we and found that the world
abdicate responsibility and control.

As the sun rose after winter par-

opened before us like the

Anarchism is naturally present in every healthy human ties in unheated squats, we gath-petals of a rose.

being. It isn’t necessarily about throwing bombs or wearing ered up great sacks of broken
black masks, though you may have seen that on television glass and washed stacks of dishes

(Do you believe everything you see on television? That’s not in freezing water, while our critics,
anarchist!). The root of anarchism is the simple impulse to sequestered in penthouses with
do it yourself: everything else follows from this.

maid service, demanded to know
who would take out the garbage
in our so-called utopia.

The next military campaigns are a symptom of social vicious-Preface: A Genealogy of Force
ness, no longer a cause. Now the invisible violence of economics ordains the visible violence of armies: soldiers cut paths into the last wilderlands of barbarism so further resources can be In the beginning, harmony: tribes of human beings live as communities perish outright; others, the ones who would sur-seized by merchants, and the freshly destitute barbarians con-one, gathering and eating and playing and sleeping and sing-vive at any cost, find that they too must become war machines.

stitute a new consumer base. Whole continents are despoiled, ing and making love and telling stories together. And, occa-They too subjugate the earth and its animals, enslave their and the inhabitants enslaved—and then their destitution is sionally, discord: an argument breaks out, strong words are vanquished foes, even their own people, anything to endure cited as proof of their racial inferiority, by the inheritors of their exchanged, a blow is struck.

in the face of this terror. They become the terror, they outdo it, stolen worlds! Missionaries are in the front lines of the assault, When this happens, the tribe meets and arrives at a resolu-and this is their undoing.

enforcing the reign of the jealous One and Only God as surely tion. Tribes that cannot do this break up, and the members Spreading like a cancer, from tribe to tribe, strange changes as the soldiers enforce the reign of brutality. Terror for territory, starve or freeze or are hunted down by wild beasts, or join an-sweep the face of the earth. Little tribes merge to become big blood for money, money for blood, He ordains it all—as it or-other tribe that can resolve conflicts. Conflicts between tribes tribes, and ultimately nations; temporary military leaders be-dains Him.

are resolved in a similar manner. For thousands upon thou-come hereditary monarchs; the vision of once peace-loving The successors of the missionaries pray directly to the sands of years, this way of life works and endures.

peoples becomes clouded with carnage. And it is not only in market. These new priests are even more successful than the But one day, there is a conflict that cannot be resolved. Dis-military matters that these tribes change. Territory is claimed soldiers in imposing the rule of power: a day comes when cussion, placation, even combat are not enough; the adversar-and marked, and becomes the source of new conflicts. Market shackles are no longer needed to make slaves servile, when ies still seek vengeance. Perhaps it is a spiritual aberration, or economics is invented: peoples who no longer trust each oth-idolatry alone is enough to keep them submissively fighting some technological or cultural innovation that allows them to er insist on trades where gifts once sufficed—and scramble to amongst themselves. Now no one can remember any other continue contending long after it is healthy, but they do not outbargain each other, to cut a profit even in peacetime. Patri-life, and son fights brother fights father fights neighbor, as the find their way back to peace as the others did before. They archy appears: the undeclared war between the sexes, the gen-specters of fear and avarice look over their empire from above.

become machines of war. Their relationship with the environ-der roles of warrior and servant, institutionalized and enforced Kings, generals, presidents rise and fall, but the system, hier-ment shifts: the earth must be disciplined, now, to provide by each generation on the next. Organized religion is invented: archy, remains: competition i tself holds the crown, picking and them stores of food to last through their struggle. Their rela-now men not only vie for land, food, property, revenge, but discarding its champions without pity.

tionships with each other change: they view all others as po-also for each other’s minds and hearts.

Everyone in these relationships of violence still wants, des-tential comrades-in-arms or enemies, appraising might above All of these innovations are catastrophic for human beings.

perately, to escape, but again and again they bear the seeds all other qualities.

They try to offset the effects with new innovations, which are of this violence with them, destroying every refuge as they The neighboring tribes do not escape unscathed. Soon greater catastrophes. Governments, convened to protect peoples, enter—as the refugees who flee to the “New World” do, and they are embroiled in this conflict, and must contend with an extract taxes from them and thrive idly off their sweat and toil; the Communists who overthrow the Czar. Even those who do enemy such as they have never encountered. Many of these police fill the streets to prevent crime, and perpetrate the worst escape, like the artists whose communes gentrify neighbor-crimes with impunity. Defending themselves
hoods, whose provocative innovations set precedents for the from the monstrosities of civilization, these
next generation’s fashion photography, only pave the way for peoples breed more awful monsters.

the steamrollers that will follow in their footsteps.

Minor nations, hell-bent on with-

Violence reaches an all-time high. Schoolchildren, mail-standing the assaults of greater ones,
men, formerly the very picture of sociability, begin to gun arm themselves to the teeth—and go on
down their companions in cold blood. Ministers molest al-fighting and conquering in exaggerated
tar boys, fathers batter their daughters, teenagers rape their response to the original threat until they
dates. Prisons overflow. Millions perish in holocausts across become great empires. So the Roman
nations and decades, and the maimed survivors initiate sub-Empire finds its origins in the resistance
sequent holocausts. Nuclear missiles point at everyone, until of rural farmers to Etruscan encroach-the imminence of the final holocaust can only be discussed in ments; so the rest of Europe becomes
platitudes. Now we are all on death row, all political prisoners.

a snakepit of competing empires, as a

Even in the loftiest citadels of the United States, protected by clude conflicts as they were in the days before warfare and consequence of hundreds of years spent
the most sophisticated and well-equipped military in the his-commerce. These moments, even when they occur between fighting that one. Later historians will look
tory of the solar system, white-collar workers with full benefits only a few individuals, are as powerful and precious as they at the bloody wars waged on the edges
and life and health insurance are no longer safe—airplanes ever were. And they are still infectious, as infectious as vio-of every civilization as evidence that the
crash, skyscrapers fall. Terror threatens us all.

lence and hatred, if only they can find unarmored hearts in

“heart of darkness” beyond this frontier

Tonight a Palestinian youth struggles to work out the which to catch hold.

is a bloody barbarism; but perhaps it
equation: have his enemies filled his world with enough mis-The world now waits for a war on war, a love armed, a is the peace-loving barbarians who are
ery that he feels more hatred for them than he does love for friendship which can defend itself. Anarchy is a word we use defending themselves from the blood-life? He thinks of his crippled father, of his bulldozed house, to describe those moments when force cannot subdue us, thirsty. Perhaps the true heart of darkness
of his departed friends—who computed this same equation and life flourishes as we know it should; anarchism is the sci-lies at the center of these empires, in the
daily, always coming to one conclusion, until the day they ence of creating and defending such moments. It is a weapon eye of the hurricane, where violence is so
came to another.

which aspires to uselessness—the only kind of weapon we will deeply ingrained in human life that it is

Where, through all this, is love? It is still here, in the forms wield, hoping against hope that this time, through some new no longer visible to the naked eye: slaves
it has always taken: families eating together, friends embrac-alchemy, our weapons will not turn upon us.

go about in the streets as if of their own
ing, gifts given simply for the pleasure of giving. We still for-We know that after “the” revolution, after every revolution, volition, powerless even to rebel; gladia-give, converse, fall deeply in love; it even happens occasionally the struggle between love and hatred, between coercion and co-tors slaughter each other in the circuses,
that new tribes federate to confront a common antagonist—
operation, will continue; but, then, as now, as always, the impor-and it is called entertainment.

not out of malice, but for the sake of peace, hoping to con-tant question is—which side are you on?

But even the president isn’t free to go for a walk in the neighborhood of his choosing.

Does anarchy work?

Why settle for a fragment of the world, or less? In the absence of force—in the egalitarian People with very little actual historical background often say of anarchy that it would beds of true lovers, in the democracy of devoted friendships, in the topless federations never work—without realizing that not only has it worked for much of the history of the of playmates enjoying good parties and neighbors chatting at sewing circles—we are all human race, but it is in fact working right now. For the time being, let’s set aside the Paris queens and kings. Whether or not anarchy can “work” outside such sanctuaries, it is be-Commune, Republican Spain, Woodstock, open-source computer programming, and all coming clearer and clearer that hierarchy doesn’t. Visit the model cities of the new world the other famed instances of successful revolutionary anarchism. Anarchy is simply coop-

“order”—sit in a traffic jam of privately owned vehicles, among motorists sweating and erative self-determination—it is a part of everyday life, not something that will only hap-swearing in isolated unison, an ocean filling with pollution to your right and a ghetto on pen “after the revolution.” Anarchy works today for circles of friends everywhere—so how your left where uniformed and ununiformed gangs clash—and behold the apex of hu-can we make more of our economic relations anarchist? Anarchy is in action when people man progress. If this is order, why not try chaos!

cooperate on a camping trip or to arrange free meals for hungry people—so how can we apply those lessons to our interactions at school, at work, in our neighborhoods?

Anarchy, not Anarchism!

To consult chaos theory: anarchy is chaos, and chaos is order. Any naturally ordered system—a rainforest, a friendly neighborhood—is a harmony in which balance per-To say that anarchists subscribe to anarchism is like saying pianists subscribe to pia-petuates itself through chaos and chance. Systematic disorder, on the other hand—the nism. There is no Anarchism—but there is anarchy, or rather, there are anarchies.

discipline of the high school classroom, the sterile rows of genetically modified corn For as long as power has existed, the spirit of anarchy has been with us too, named or defended from weeds and in-nameless, uniting millions or steeling the resolve of a single one. The slaves and savages sects—can only be maintained
who fought the Romans for their freedom and lived in armed liberty, equality, and frater-by ever-escalating exertions of
nity, the mothers who raised their daughters to love their bodies in defiance of the diet Capitalism
force. Some, thinking disorder
advertisements leering from all sides, the renegades who painted their faces and threw means constant
is simply the absence of any
tea into Boston Harbor, and all the others who took matters into their own hands: they system, confuse it with anarchy.

were anarchists, whether they called themselves Ranters, Taborites, Communards, Abo-struggle!

But disorder is the most ruth-
litionists, Yippies, Syndicalists, Quakers, Mothers of the Disappeared, Food Not Bombs, less system of all: disorder and

Libertarians, or even Republicans—just as we are all anarchists, to the extent that we do conflict, unresolved, quickly
the same. There are as many anarchists today as there are students cutting class, parents systematize themselves, stack-cheating on their taxes, women teaching themselves bicycle repair, lovers desiring out-ing up hierarchies according to
side the lines. They don’t need to vote for an anarchist party or party line—that would their own pitiless demands—
disqualify them, at least for that moment—to be anarchists: anarchy is a mode of being, a selfishness, heartlessness, lust
manner of responding to conditions and relating to others, a class of human behavior . .

for domination. Disorder in its

. and not the “working” class!

most developed form is capital-

Forget about the history of anarchism as an idea—forget the bearded guys. It’s one thing ism: the war of each against all,
to develop a language for describing a thing—it’s another thing entirely to live it. This is not rule or be ruled, sell or be sold,
about theories or formulas, heroes or biographies—it’s about your life. Anarchy is what mat-from the soil to the sky.

ters, everywhere it appears, not armchair an-

We live in a particularly vio-
archism, the specialists’ study of freedom!

lent and hierarchical time. The

There are self-proclaimed anarchists who
maniacs who think they benefit
never experienced a day of anarchy in their
from this hierarchy tell us that
lives—we should know how much to trust
the violence would be worse
them on the subject!

without it, not comprehending that hierarchy itself, whether it be inequalities in economic So how will the anarchist utopia work?

status or political power, is the consequence and expression of violence. Not to say that That’s a question we’ll never again be duped
forcibly removing the authorities would immediately end the waves of violence created into disputing over, a red herring if there He calls for the daily
by the greater violence their existence implies; but until we are all free to learn how to get ever was one! This isn’t a utopian vision, or
paper to check the
along with each other for our own sake, rather than under the guns directed by the ones a program or ideal to serve; it’s simply a way
opinion polls. Looking
through this filter at his
who benefit from our strife, there can be no peace between us.

of proceeding, of approaching relationships,
subjects, he sees what he

This state of affairs is maintained by more than guns, more than the vertigo of hier-of dealing with problems now—for surely
is looking for, not who he
archy, of kill-or-be-killed reasoning: it is also maintained by the myth of success. Official we’ll never be entirely through dealing with
is looking at. Thousands
history presents our past as the history of Great Men, and all other lives as mere effects problems! Being an anarchist doesn’t mean
of stealth bombers, tens
of their causes; there are only a few subjects of history, they would make us believe—the believing anarchy, let alone anarchism, can
of thousands of soldiers,
rest of us are its objects. The implication of any hierarchy is that there is only one “free fix everything—it just means acknowledg-hundreds of thousands of
man” in all society: the king (or president, executive, movie star, etc.). Since this is the ing it’s up to us to work things out, that no tons of bombs and bullets
way it has always been and always will be, the account goes, we should all fight to become one and nothing else can do this for us: ad-protect the emperor from
him, or at least accept our station beneath him gracefully, grateful for others beneath us mitting that, like it or not, our lives are in
his empire. Let’s hope it’s
not enough.

to trample when we need reassurance of our own worth.

our hands—and in each others’.

Is this what democracy looks like?

The economics of anarchy

Anarchists use democracy—but we don’t let democracy use us. For us, the first and Anarchist economies are radically different from other economies. Anarchists not last matter is always the needs and feelings of the individuals involved—any system to only conduct their transactions differently, but trade in an entirely different currency—
address them is provisional at best. We don’t try to force ourselves into the confines of any one which is not convertible into the kind of assets for which capitalists compete and

“A scoundrel’s worst
establisthed procedures—we apply procedures to the extent that they serve human needs, communists draft Five Year Plans. Capitalists, socialists, communists exchange products; fear is a society without
and discard them past that point. Seriously, what should come first—our systems, or us?

anarchists interchange assistance, inspiration, loyalty. Capitalist, socialist, communist money: for in such a

We cooperate or coexist with others, including other life forms, whenever it’s possible.

economies make human interactions into commodities: policing, medical care, educa-society he would only get

But we don’t prize consensus, let alone The Rule of Law, above our own values and tion, even sexual relations become services that are bought and sold. Anarchist econo-the respect he deserves.”

dreams—when we can’t come to an agreement, we go our own ways, rather than limiting mies, focusing above all on the needs and desires of the individuals involved, transform

–Ben Franklin
each other. In extreme cases, when others refuse to acknowledge our needs or persist in products back into social relations: the communal experience of gardening or dumpster doing unconscionable, harmful things, we intercede by whatever means are necessary—
diving or playing music, the excitement and self-righteous high of stealing from a super-not on behalf of Justice or revenge, but simply to represent our own interests.

market or squatting a building. The typical economic interaction in capitalist relations is We see laws as nothing more than the shadows of our predecessors’ customs, the sale; in anarchist economics, it is the gift.

lengthened by the years to seem more wise than our own judgment. They persist as Anarchist economies depend on social capital, which is the opposite of private property.

undead creatures, imposing unnatural stipulations upon us that do not enable justice, Private capital disappears when utilized, as in the case of money spent by day laborers on but only interfere with it—while at the same time estranging us from it, framing it as food—or, when applied with avaricious calculation, serves to accrue more private capital something we cannot carry out without arcane formalities and judges’ wigs. These laws, at others’ expense, as in the case of the corporation that exploits those laborers. Social having multiplied and atrophied over time, are now so alien and inscrutable that a priest capital, on the other hand, is available in abundance—in fact, it is precisely that capital class of lawyers makes a living off the rest of us as astrologers of the stars our well-which, utilized by some, becomes more available to them and others: the community meaning ancestors set in precarious orbit. The man who insists that justice can only be garden which produces more food the more people cooperate in it, the squatted building maintained by the rule of law is the same one who appears on the witness stand at the war crime which is better renovated for community usage and better defended from the police the tribunal swearing he was only following orders. There’s no Justice—it’s just us.

more people commit to it. In friendships, as in lovemaking, as in potluck dinners and dancing, the more one gives, the more everyone gets.

Today, most of us participate in both kinds of
economies at once. Ostensibly private property is But who will take out the garbage?

still shared, at least in limited contexts: a teenager brings his basketball for the neighborhood game, It was in Barcelona, some years after the civil war, a rock band buys a communal van. Even a house when the memory of the syndicates still remained, belonging to a middle class family, although unutterable, under the iron heel of the fascist regime.

off-limits for most, still hosts visiting relatives, City bus #68 was making its rounds one a P.T.A. meeting, a sleep-over party. Instances particularly sunny spring day, when the driver like these are reminders of how much more slammed on the brakes at an intersection. “Fuck pleasurable sharing can be than commerce. this,” he swore in angry Catalan, and, opening the Anarchists nurture visions of a world suitable for bus doors, stomped out into the sunshine.

a sharing that knows no borders.

The passengers watched in shock at first, and then
began to protest anxiously. One of them stood up
and started to honk the horn. After a few tentative beeps, he leaned on it with all his might, sounding it like a burglar alarm; but the fed up ex-bus driver continued, nonchalant, on his way down the street.

For a full minute, the riders sat in stupefied
silence. A couple stood up and got off the bus
themselves. Then, from the back of the bus, a
woman with the appearance of a huge cannon ball
and an air of unconquerable self-possession stepped forward. Without a word, she sat down in the driver’s seat, and put the engine in gear. The bus continued on its route, stopping at its customary stops, until the woman arrived at her own and got off. Another

“Just about everyone loves
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government. Anarchy—
every bus stop, and then another, and another, and so that’s just democracy

#68 continued, until the end of the line.

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people it purpor above the real things in this world. It means being faithful to real human beings (and animals, and ecosystems), fighting for ourselves and beside each other “responsibility concepts. It means denying that there is any universal standard of tr wherever it appears the doctrine that life is essentially one-dimensional.

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in anyone else’ employers, or society itself. It means taking the pursuit of meaning and joy in your life upon your own shoulders.

definition as it is, but making and remaking it for yourself.

Self-sacrifice

Civic hedonism

Self-determination begins at home
makes it easier

What’s good for others is good
to sacrifice

Not to be forced by expectation, doctrine, or necessity to claim one fragment of yourself

“I’m man enough to

“Western man fills his
for us, since our relationships with
others without
and disown others. Not to take sides within and against yourself, not to play judge and tell you that I can’t put
pantry with groceries,
them make up the world in which
blushing.

jury constantly at your own trial. Not to protect pristine ignorance with inaction, but to my finger on exactly
and thinks himself
we live; but serving their needs at
learn from mistakes and thus grow wise. Not to choose one path in life and follow it what my philosophy is
self-sufficient.”

our own expense would cheat them
to the exclusion of all others, but to throw false unity and consistency to the wind—to now, but I’m flexible.”

-Gandhi

—Malcolm X,
of our potential as free and happy
give expression to every impulse and yearning in what you deem its proper time, and shortly before his death
companions, which is perhaps the
appreciate what is fertile in turmoil. To do this knowing you are a part of a community best gift we can offer. Our vision of
that cherishes you unconditionally—and to cherish others in their entirety, as they reflect healthy relationships rests on the
parts of yourself.

notion that self versus other, selfish

To live without the petty squabbles of pecking order and power structure inside any versus selfless, is a false dichotomy,
more than around—that is the anarchist dream of selfhood.

like all dichotomies. Those who

It was not until later
preach self-sacrifice for the greater
that I realized that the
good are still working from the

Direct action gets the goods
carefree intensity of our
competitive model of individual-ver-
friendship was a spell cast
sus-society, as are those who would

A community in which people direct their own activities and look out for each other Purity is the opposite of
into the world for other
aspire to an individualist indepen-
does not need a prison or factory built in it to “create jobs.” A community of people integrity—the cruelest
such friendships, that
dence; for us, individuals and communities alike are both convergences of threads in the who share their own channels of communication are not at the mercy of any corporate thing you can do to
each dream we realized
a person is make her
together was a seed
great web of existence, inseparable from one another, corresponding to one another. The media version of “truth.” A community of people who make their own music and art and ashamed of her own
planted for togetherness
freedom and self-determination we cherish are only possible in the context of the culture organize their own social events would never settle for the paralyzing spectacle of MTV, complexity. The stories
everywhere—and for
we create together; yet in order to contribute to that creation, we must create ourselves let alone computer dating services and pornography. A community of people who know of our lives have no
realized dreams.

individually.

each other’s histories and understand each other’s needs can work through conflicts morals. Any single

That is: if you can save yourself, you could save the world—but you must save the without any need for interference from uniformed strangers with guns. The extent to conclusion drawn
world to save yourself.

which we can create these communities is the extent to which we can solve the problems would be false; the
we face today, and no legislation or charity will do this for us.

episodes, taken together,

Institutions can only be as good as the people who make them work—and they usually are untranslatable,
aren’t, anyhow. Solutions “from above” have proved ineffective over and over: the red A fellowship of friends and lovers
incomparable. If we
tape of medical programs, the inefficiency of social services, the lies of presidents. If are to conclude at all,

As anarchists propose that friendship, or at least family, could be the model for all you don’t trust the people, you can be sure you can’t trust the police.

we can only conclude
relationships, we prize above all those qualities which make good friendships possible: against conclusions.

reliability, generosity, gentleness. Most of us have been indoctrinated into hierarchy and contention since we were born, and that makes it no small feat to interact in ways that liberate and enable more than cripple—still, it happens all Poetry is
the time! Each of us tries to give without demanding in return, to made by all,
be a person with whom no one must feel ashamed. It’s been said not one!

that we are against marriage, but the opposite is more true: yes, we emphasize that no one is the property of another, but even more so that everybody on this planet is practically married—and we insist that everyone act accordingly.

All this is not to say we approach soldiers with flowers when they come for our children—nor do we offer corporations our children when they come for our flowers. Sometimes love can only Now, finally, I am my own

If we bet on anything,
speak through the barrel of a gun.

soul’s emperor: and my first
it is that it’s more
act is abdication.

important for people
to feel that their lives
matter than it is for
them to keep up
appearances. If they
sometimes act in ways
that suggest otherwise,
perhaps it is because it’s

. . . but it’s still up
been so long since they
to us to make poetry.

felt they had the choice.

All gods, all masters

. . . And every god an atheist

Anarchism is aristocratic—anarchists just insist that the elite should consist of everyone, Anarchists not only deny the authority of God, Chief of Police of the Universe, but that the struggle of the “common man” can become the struggle of the uncommon also maintain a healthy distrust of his successors: Nature, History, Science, Morality.

women and men it produces.

We don’t account any being the right to our unquestioning faith, since even when we

“When I am good, I am

We have no illusions that there are any shortcuts to anarchy. We don’t seek to lead esteem others’ knowledge or judgment better than our own we are still responsible for very very good, but when

“the” people, but to establish a nation of sovereigns; we don’t seek to be a vanguard of the choice to trust them. Accordingly, we don’t regard any contention or assumption as I am bad I am better.”

theorists, but to empower a readership of authors; we don’t seek to be the artists of a new above dispute, and revel more in moving freely between paradigms than in debating

-B. Bardot
avant garde, but to enable an audience of performers—we don’t so much seek to destroy which one is The Truth. We are especially suspicious of experts who would mediate power as to make it freely available in abundance: we want to be masters without slaves.

between us and deities or spheres of knowledge, and prefer both to learn about the world We recognize that power struggles and dynamics will always be a part of human life; and to contact the divine for ourselves.

many of us have a “tyrannical muse” we obey, albeit willingly, so we reserve even the Justice as Judgment we count of little worth: we want to be practical, to solve problems, right to command and serve, when it pleases us. But, as they say, the only free human not to treat human relations and conduct as another economic exchange with righteous-beings are the pauper and the king—the king being the less free of the two, since his ness for currency. We apply the idea of personal responsibility only to the extent that it is kingdom still encumbers and limits him, while on her luckier days the hobo can feel useful in making our relation-that the whole of the cosmos exists for the sake of her pleasure and freedom—so we I could make
ships work; otherwise, it is of
of my brain a
prefer not to trivialize ourselves by competing for such fool’s gold as ownership or dutiful, if weary,
but my senses,
little interest to us whether a
serf;
willful princes,
authority. And—when struggle is unavoidable, we would still prefer to be at the mercy rebelled, preferring
person’s soul is damned or

“Without Truth,
of the violence and stupidity of other individuals than the violence and stupidity of exile to occupation.

redeemed, whether conduct
you are the Looser.”

humanity as it is distilled and marshaled by the State.

is moral or immoral, whether

-graffito on Lisbon wall,

We’re not egalitarians in the old sense: we’re not out to pull the rich and powerful society or the individual is to

Christmas 2001
down to “our level”—rather, we pity them for not being ambitious enough in their blame for a wrong.

aspirations, and hope they will abdicate to join us in fighting to make it possible for Let it not be said about us
everyone to ascend to greatness (that way, we won’t have to guillotine them). We’re not that we hold nothing holy! On
against the glory assigned to pop icons and movie stars, per se—we just deplore the way the contrary, we hold every-it is squandered on distant objects, when it rightfully belongs to the moments of our own thing holy. Denying hierarchy
heroic lives. We’re not against the homage and devotion that the monototheists’ God means venerating the singu-receives; we simply find it healthier to devote it to each other. We’re not against property, lar, incomparable beauty of
exactly, so much as we are the pettiness of bickering over it: for we understand that to every creature, every feature
rule the world, we must share it all—and not demolish or meddle with it, for that matter.

of the cosmos, every moment.

The true pauper king walks the forests of his domain proudly, watching the interactions Only appraisal and condem-of the complex ecosystems in awe, knowing the only appropriate conduct for a monarch nation are anathema to us.

of such a wonderland is a policy of veneration and non-intervention (except to thwart the occasional logging corporation). We’re not waiting for “the” revolution to give us

“The anarchist is a very fierce creature. It is first cousin to the the rights we deserve; deeming ourselves the highest authorities we need recognize, we gorilla. It kills presidents, princes, executives, likewise sabotages grant them to ourselves immediately and therefore make revolution constantly as a way to their summits and summer holidays. It has long, unkempt hair on assert and protect them.

its head and all over its face. Instead of fingernails it has long, sharp claws. The anarchist has many pockets in which it carries rocks, We will settle for nothing less than total world domination, for one and all.

knives, guns, and bombs. It is a night animal. After dark, it gathers in groups, large and small, and plans raids, murders, plagues. Lots are drawn to select who must carry out the work.

The anarchist does not like water. It never washes or changes its clothes. It is always thirsty and drinks only salt water. The home of the anarchist is in Europe, especially Italy. Some few have been exported to North America, where they are feared and hated by all decent folks and hunted wherever they show themselves.

Papa does not like anarchists a bit. They give him bad dreams, he says. He has given orders to have them caught and put in cages, and he will not allow any more to come into this country if he can help it. If any sneak in, he will have them shot like rabid dogs, Mexicans, mountain lions, and such animals. I practice every day with my rifle so I can shoot these wild beasts when I grow up.”

-A White House nursery composition, 1904

Gross generalizations

Anarchists make revolutions, not war

All of us have grown up divided and conquered along lines of gender and sexual preference, Beware of struggle. Not a few radicals get involved in politics because they know body type and ethnicity, class and race, bought off with privileges and beaten down with everything about resisting and little about anything else. They turn every interaction into psychological warfare so we’ll do our parts to keep the pecking order in place. White a conflict between the forces of good and evil, taking a stand and drawing the line until supremacy, patriarchy, and heterosexism are the pillars of this civilization. We anarchists it really is them against the world. For would-be career agitators, this can be a great way fight against these oppressive structures whether we find them in society or ourselves; but we to maintain that career—but it accomplishes little else beyond getting people agitated in aim for more than the liberation of human beings of all identities—we want the liberation of the strictest sense of the word. Most will just stop paying attention entirely—who doesn’t all human beings from identity.

already have enough antagonism and unpleasantness to deal with?

We believe there are no universals. Group identities are self-perpetuating fabrications that There are always wars waiting to be fought—against, against, against. Fighting these begin with circumstantial evidence and end by imposing uniformity. There are two genders, wars perpetuates the dualities that give rise to them. Anarchists anachronize wars, by for example, like there are “only” twelve tones in every octave: it seems true when you look at a transcending oppositions. That is revolution.

piano, but try opening your mouth and singing! Though “femininity” may appear ordained by Don’t join an existing conflict on its terms and make yourself a pawn of its patterns: nature to those who grew up in environments where all women shave their legs and armpits, define and redefine the terms of the conflict—from “democracy versus terrorism” to “free-it is just a generalization drawn from generations of standardized behavior, reinforced by dom versus power,” for example! Find ways to make premises subvert themselves, to draw each replication. But—as there is no “pure” femininity, no substance the generalization refers people together in ways they thought impossible, to upset the entire paradigm of struggle.

to besides what all the individual instances are perceived to have in common, and so each generation is not the “original” but a “copy”—the entire paradigm is at risk in every new Not a position, but a proposition
generation, as it may be transformed . . . or abandoned.

At best, generalizations like class and gender can be used to undo themselves—to expose So if you want to provoke revolt, don’t draw a line between yourself and the rest of and confront the patterns of oppression that run through individual lives, to find common the world and threaten everyone across it. Don’t propagate a universal program, don’t cause in fighting the invisibility of certain experiences and histories. We want to get beyond campaign for recruits, for heaven’s sake don’t “educate the masses”! Forget about these and all categories and conflicts, but it’s only going to happen if we begin by addressing persuading people to your opinion—encourage them to develop the power to form them. In men’s groups, human beings constructed as men can exchange skills for rewiring their own. Everyone having their own ideas is more anarchist than everyone having The their programming; in women-only spaces, those constructed as women can explore similarly Anarchist Idea. Any central organization
without the presence of men interfering. Of course we defend the right of individuals to choose or recognized authority on revolt can

Historians tell of the mighty emperor Darius, who led his troops how they want to be identified, if they so desire (though this strikes some of us as analogous to only stifle self-determination by ordering
into the steppes with the intention of subduing the Scythians and choosing one’s masters)—and no vision of unbounded life is any excuse to pretend the world it (pun intended). Individuals acting
adding their territory to his empire. The Scythians were a nomadic is yet free anywhere from power
freely, on the other hand, can inspire and
people, and when they learned that Darius’ forces were to descend imbalances. But ultimately it is
reinforce liberty and resistance in each
upon them, they broke camp and began a slow retreat. They moved revolution we’re after, not reform:

other: independence, like all good things,
at such a speed that though Darius’ armies could always descry we’re not petitioning for more
is available in abundance. It certainly
them on the horizon, they were never able to close in. For days they Don’t liberate me—I’ll take care of that.

rights for special interest groups,
doesn’t need to be— cannot be—doled
fled ahead of the invaders—then weeks, months, leaving all the or more freedom of movement
out sparingly by a central committee to
food in their wake destroyed and all the water poisoned; they led the between established categories—
constituents waiting in breadlines!

intruding armies in circles, into the lands of neighboring peoples we’re taking and making our right

And when it comes to propaganda,
who attacked them, through unbroken deserts where gaunt vultures to make and remake ourselves in
don’t try to say “the” truth. Meddle with
licked bleached bones. The proud warriors, accustomed to flaunting every moment, and wrecking the

The Truth, undermine it, create a space
their bravado in swift, dramatic clashes, were in despair. Darius sent system of divisions in the process!

in which new truths can form. Introduce
a message with his fastest courier, who was barely able to deliver it We are feminists who would
questions, not answers—though remem-
to the laziest straggler of the Scythian flank: “As your ruler,” it read, abolish gender, labor organizers
ber, not all questions end in question

“I order you to turn and fight!”

who would abolish work, artists
marks. For the revolutionary, the essence

“If you are our ruler,” came the reply, scratched carelessly into a fighting to destroy and transcend
of a statement lies in its effects, not in rock face they came upon the next day, “go weep.”

art. Our class war is a war against
whether or not it is “objectively” true—

Days later, after they had given up all hope, the scouts made out class, against classes and classifi-this approach distinguishes her from
a line of Scythian horsemen charging forward across the plain. They cation. When we say that we are
philosophers and other idle bastards.

were waving their swords excitedly and letting out great whoops against representation, we do not
of enthusiasm. Caught unprepared but relieved at the prospect of only mean representative “democ-doing battle at last, the warriors took up their arms—only to discern, racy”; we also mean that each of us

To be radical is
in confusion, that the Scythians were not charging their lines, but simply to keep up
is an irreducible individual, that
with reality.

somewhat to the side of them. Looking closer, they made out that none can speak for another. Neithe horsemen were pursuing a rabbit. Upon this humiliation, the ther politicians nor abstractions,

No, it’s the

other way
soldiers threatened mutiny, and Darius was forced to turn back and neither delegates nor demograph-

’round!

leave Scythia in defeat. Thus the Scythians entered history as the ics can represent us!

most unconquerable of clans by refusing to do battle.

Anarchism is a paradox

Beautiful anarchists desire you

. . . but it is the kind of paradox we anarchists relish. Urging people to think for themselves, These days it can be difficult, even terrifying, to be an anarchist. You may well be seizing power to abolish it, making war on war, these are all contradictions—but it’s good one of those people who hides her anarchism, at least in certain situations, lest others tactics to engage in obvious hypocrisy, if you want the rebels to depose you along with (equally scared, and probably by the same things) accuse you of being too idealistic or other authorities! Flying a black flag to express opposition to flags sounds senseless—but,

“irresponsible”—as if politely burying the planet in garbage isn’t!

living in the shadow of so many flags that flaglessness is interpreted as acquiescence, it You shouldn’t be so timid—you are not alone. There are millions of us waiting for you may be sound senselessness. Better a black flag than a white one, anyway!

to make yourself known, ready to love you and laugh with you and fight at your side for a better world. Follow your heart to the places we will meet. Please don’t be too late.

Create momentum!

So—Create momentum! Don’t sit endlessly in meetings, meeting about when you should OK, I’m interested. What do I do next?

be meeting to discuss how to conduct your next meeting. If your masochistic comrades feel the unfathomable compulsion to spend weeks, months, years of yammering hammering Not to be brusque, but haven’t you been paying attention? We’re not trying to get you out the wording of a platform to which they can all pledge themselves, and then further to convert to a religion or vote for a party here—on the contrary. The best and the hardest years in internal dissension and rupturing, let them, but don’t feel obliged to join in just to part of this is that it’s entirely in your hands.

prove how committed to the Revolution you are. Don’t feel obliged to join in anything—this It starts when you care to
is your revolution!

act, when you do it again

Create momentum! Don’t demand change—realize it yourself with your actions. All after they say no, when
you can accomplish is what you do yourself with your companions, and that’s a lot: this you say “We,” and know
is how you keep your dignity in a mad world, how you write your own life story and thus who you mean, and each
let others know they aren’t powerless either.

day you mean one more.

Acting on your desires puts you in touch with

Full Contact Anarchism:

them—otherwise, you have to put the same
energy into disavowing them. Skip down the

Not a spectator sport!

street if you’re happy, burn down a building if it outrages you. Love blossoms on a battle-field—it’s easier to release yourself to it when
you’re ready to back it up! When you live out
your own most secret wishes, you’ll find you
express those of others, too. Find yourself proj-
ects that engage you, that put you in situations
in which you are wholly present in the mo-
ment. And don’t be afraid of being unrealis-
tic—it is precisely the unreal which needs real-
izing. You can’t create unless you can dream.

Create momentum! Anarchists don’t give
instructions—we give license. Help others give themselves permission to live, by setting

“C’est triste à dire, mais je ne pense que l’on puisse vaincre sans precedents—and offer support, share skills,
les drapeaux rouges et noirs. Mais il faut détruire—ápres.”

† create opportunities for the civilians around you

– Jean Genet, Paris, 1968
to express their own radical desires in action.

You’ll be surprised who will fight the pigs in the
streets, when the chance arises!

Don’t sighingly sign petitions, pose for the
cameras, await some window of opportunity. Do
participate in town parades and street festivals,

†
break into abandoned buildings to throw great

“Unfortunately, I don’t think we can win without the red and black flags.

banners down the sides, start conversations with

But they must be destroyed afterwards.”

strangers, challenge everything you thought
you knew about yourself in bed, maintain a
constant feeling in the air that something is happening. Live as if the future depends on your every deed, and it will. Don’t wait for yourself to show up—you already have. Grant yourself license to live and tear those shackles to ribbons: Create momentum!

Rousing conclusion

In some moments, in this insane world, anarchy appears in fragments, whispering of hidden lives that beckon from within this one: those hours you spend with your best friends after work, the remains of a poster pasted on an alley wall, that instant masturbating or making love when you are neither male nor female, fat nor skinny, rich nor poor. In other moments, that insanity is the exception, the fragment, Composed by some anarchists. The “we” used throughout these texts is the anarchist we: that is, it refers to all who would associate themselves with the statements in and anarchy is simply the world we live. One hundred thousand of us can found a new civilization, question, and to no others. Further material and additional copies of this publication one hundred can transform a city, two can write the bedtime stories our children have been waiting to are available free in any quantity from the CrimethInc. Free Press, P.O. Box 13998, hear—and sow the seeds for millions to come.

Salem, OR 97309 U.S.A.—for more information, consult www.crimethinc.com.

When one of us defies the protection racket of public opinion and “necessity” and drops everything Donations, correspondence, and other gifts gladly received in return!

to live as she has dreamed, the whole world receives the gift of that freedom. When we fill the streets to dance and blow fire, we can remember with our bodies that we deserve such dances and such space for A maddeningly incomplete selection of possible titles for further reading could include: them. When the ski resorts burn and department store windows shatter, for a moment “private property”

is neither private nor property—and we create new relations between ourselves and a cosmos that is

1984—George Orwell
suddenly ours, and new, once more. If we risk our lives, it is because we know only by doing so can we

Anarchism and the Black Revolution—Lorenzo Komboa Ervin make them our own. See you on the front page of the last newspaper those motherfuckers ever print—

Assata: An Autobiography—Assata Shakur Noam Deguerre, CrimethInc. Black Writers’ Bloc

The Dispossessed—Ursula K. Le Guin

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics—bell hooks

Ishmael—Daniel Quinn

A Language Older Than Words—Derrick Jensen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

—James W. Loewen

Living My Life—Emma Goldman

No Logo—Naomi Klein

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent—Eduardo Galeano

A People’s History of the United States—Howard Zinn

That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation—edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore

Thank the heavens I have nothing.

T.A.Z. —Hakim Bey

Help me not to hate the ones

I must destroy.

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education—

Grace Llewellyn

Unjobbing: The Adult Liberation Handbook—Michael Fogler

Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising—Starhawk

. . . not to mention these books from the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective:

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners

Expect Resistance: A Crimethink Field Manual

Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook For access to a wide variety of similar books and resources, contact AK Press / 674-A 23rd St. /

Oakland, CA 94612, or look up www.akpress.org. Cyberspace cadets can scour these websites for further ports of entry to the mysterious anarchist underworld: www.crimethinc.com

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