It is obvious that one shouldn’t leave evidence or speak to the police, that one should take the due precautions to avoid arrest — a situation that would certainly not enhance one’s struggle for a full free life.

It is not at all, in any way, obvious and people with a great deal of training and experience fuck up and get their entire cell exterminated all the time. That’s a huge part of why security is so important; When someone inevitably gets drunk at a bar and starts talking, or trusts their partner and discusses trauma not knowing their partner is a cop, the cell needs to be compartmentalized so it can be cut free before the entire system is mapped and annihilated.

As an example of why this is absurd on it’s face go refresh yourself on how the Metropolitan Police completely infiltrated the London activist scene and had cops in significant places, including in fake relationships with activists, for decades.

The caution necessary to avoid arrest does not reflect the sort of life and relationships we want to build.

It’s very telling that this person is concerned with arrest. Not torture, not extermination. Not your children being thrown in to the foster system, your elderly parents dying on the street, your allies being taken down when you narc on them because you’re a twit.. Mere arrest. That’s the scope of state violence that they see as a threat.

When anarchists begin to see security as their top priority — as a “culture” that they must develop — paranoia comes to dominate relationships. Anarchist conferences are set up with levels of bureaucracy and (let’s call things what they are) policing that too closely parallels what we are trying to destroy. Suspicion replaces comradeship and solidarity. If someone doesn’t look or dress right, he finds herself ostracized, excluded from involvement. Something vital has been lost here — the reason for our struggle. It has vanished behind the hard armor of militancy, and we have come to be the mirror image of our enemy. The anarchist struggle slips into this joyless, paranoid rigidity when it is not carried out as an attempt to create life differently, joyfully, intensely, but is rather treated as a cause to which one is to sacrifice oneself. One’s struggle then becomes moral, not a question of desire, but of right and wrong, good and evil, conceived as absolute and knowable. Here is the source of much of the rigidity, much of the paranoia and much of the unwarranted sense of self-importance that one finds much too often in anarchist circles. We are the righteous warriors surrounded on all sides by the forces of evil. We must protect ourselves from any possibility of contamination. And the character armor hardens undermining the joyful spirit that provides the courage necessary for the destruction of the world of domination. I cannot stress this enough; The author is a cop

This is why our projects of attack must originate in and be carried out with joy and an expansive generosity of spirit.

I have read Sun Tzu cover to cover many times and I assure you that “joy and an expansive generosity of spirit” is not ever discussed as a relevant factor in combined arms warfare.

This reason is absolutely serious in its desire to destroy all that diminishes life, confining it to that which can be measured. And because it is so serious, it laughs.

It’s very hard to laugh when a police sniper has turned your lungs inside out and you’re choking to death on your own blood.

the situationist idea that revolution would be therapeutic

Oh they do know about the Situationists.

It seems clear to me that the situationists were pointing out that a real revolutionary rupture would break down the social constraints which underlie so much of what is considered “mental illness” and “emotional disturbance”

People who put mental illness in scare quotes are not comrades.

And many so-called revolutionaries, in conformity to such a practice, tend to become the emotionally crippled neurotics that they assume they are, searching for a revolutionary healing that will never come, because this assumed role is inherently self-perpetuating and, thus perpetuates the society that produces it.

The fascist hates mentally ill people. Water wet, Sky blue.

By accepting the idea (promoted heavily by progressive education and publicity) that the structures of oppression are essentially mindsets inside of ourselves, we become focused on our own presumed weakness, on how crippled we supposedly are.

Again, this person is yelling at liberals in a language liberals cannot understand.

Because the first two give very real and clear expression of the difference between psychoanalysis and social analysis, between the approach of therapy and that of revolt, I will examine them briefly.

Lol this person thinks that Freudian psychotherapy is representative of mental health care. This explains so much.

Viewing racism and sexism as essentially unconscious mindsets and the behavior these produce, the nature of which we are not always aware, we are drawn onto a practice of constant self-examination, constant self-doubt, which effectively disables us, particularly in our ability to interact with the other.

Oh yeah this makes so much sense they’re not just yelling at libs, they’re yelling at Freud. Fuck me.

If one has the bad fortune of being “white” and “male” (even if one consciously rejects all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels), then he is required to accept the judgment of “non-whites” and “females” about the significance, the “real” unconscious motivations of his actions.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No bro I’m not enmeshed in the patriarchy bro I’m the main character I’m special I consciously reject all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels by… being a violent, anti-social, untrustworthy menace who acts without consideration for the needs, wellbeing, and personhood of others in ways that are dangerous to everyone around me.

It’s lovely to see people tell on themselves like this. DAE woke Dei idpol removed leftists?

If, on the other hand, we view racism and sexism as expressions of the social ideological constructs of race and gender which have specific institutional foundations, a very different approach applies. The concept of race as it is currently understood here in North America has its origins in the institutions of black slavery and the genocide against the indigenous people of this continent. Once established by these institutions, it became rooted into all of the power structures on one level or another due to its usefulness to the ruling class, and was trickled down to the exploited classes as a means of separating them and keeping them fighting among themselves. Sexism has its origins in the institutions of property, marriage and the family. It is here that patriarchy and male dominance have their seat. Within this framework, gender is created as a social construct, and as with race, it is the continuing usefulness of this construct to the ruling class that has kept it in place in spite of the increasingly obvious absurdity of the institutions that are its basis. Thus, the destruction of racism and sexism must start with the explicitly revolutionary project of destroying the institutional frameworks which are the current basis for the constructs of race and gender. Such a project is not one of therapy, but of revolt. It will not be accomplished by shy, tiptoeing mice — nor by inquisitors — but by self-confident, indomitable rebels.

This is incredible. This person has gone to great lengths to extol the virtues of violent masculinity, then whines about how woke DEI feminists don’t trust them because they’re too stupid to see that akshually the problem is structural you silly women and minorities.

Thus, there can be no obligations, no debts, only choices of how to act.

Again, this person is a danger to everyone around them.

? Basing itself in the idea that we are crippled rather than chained, inherently weak rather than held down, it imposes an obligatory interdependence, a mutuality of incapacity, rather than a sharing of strengths and capabilities.

Fascist hero cult again. Contempt for weakness, which they have coded as being feminine and minority, exultation of heroism which they have identified with masculinity and whiteness.