The Revolution is Now!

Anarchy is Back!

The age of revolutions is far from over. The common sentiment is that the world is fucked. Unfortunately, this recognition of a world in slow decay has been met by the utmost complacency. Much of the left has abandoned the dream of revolution for an unquestioning faith in the electoral process. The revolutionary segments of the left that still exist embrace a vision of revolution that is stuck in the age of the dinosaurs. We are at an impasse. Revolution is necessary, yet past strategies are recipes for failure.

The inability to escape capitalism should be chalked to the immense failure that was the so-called “revolutionary” left. Marxists have been successful, but only at creating genocidal state capitalist regimes. Guy Debord was spot-on when he said that “the Bourgeoise is the only revolutionary class that have ever won”. Revolutionary struggle in the 21^st century must be entirely rethought. Liberation begins once Marxism is left to the dustbins of history. Black is the new red. The juice is with Anarchy.

Marxism poses itself as a science that transcends superstition yet has always been a secular mythology. It isn’t surprising that many communists discuss revolution as if it is a single future event that will magically solve all our problems. Because of the resemblance to Christianity, many Anarchists have referred to this as the “rapture revolution”. The proletariat gloriously overthrows the dictatorship of the bourgeois and implements a workers state. Once the revolution is finished, there is little need for struggle as the red bourgeoisie are in power. Bolshevik propaganda of the October revolution resembles artist renditions of the second coming of Jesus Christ. Treating revolution as the second coming ignores the urgency of the present. It cultivates inaction with a pacifying blind hope. The rapture revolution treats liberation as a single moment.

Many leftist movements ritualize a voting, marching, meeting, recruiting pattern. The endless cycles of symbolic protests, and canvassing for politicians is a predictable element of the status quo. It is time to escape this toxic cycle and move towards revolutionary action in the present. The ballot box has become the greatest killer of revolutionary fervor. The state always has been and always will be an unmoving pillar for the status quo. To believe that the state can be turned into an instrument of liberation is akin to believing that the electric chair can be turned into an ice cream machine. Nothing could be more fatalistic than begging for breadcrumbs from our rulers. Nothing could be more foolish than repeatedly clinging to the old failed strategies. Nothing could be more ridiculous than having the utmost faith in our leaders. Revolution is the truly sober minded option. We must learn to develop a hatred for our masters and to realize our immense collective power. We must learn to save ourselves.

Fuck Waiting!

The revolution is now! Let’s not seek to wait. Let’s not seek to ask for permission. Every new day is a new opportunity to smash domination to pieces. Every new minute is a new opportunity to revolt against the prevailing order. There is no better moment than the present to fight. There is no reason that we cannot resist at the current moment! Fuck waiting!

There are a million ways we can go about attacking the interconnected forms of domination. Let’s seek to educate and agitate the populace on how to break free from their chains. Let’s create communities, organizations, federations, affinity groups, collectives and militias to make the state obsolete. Let’s prefigure mutual aid networks, library economies, direct distribution networks, really really free markets, and freeshops to subvert the capitalist system. Let’s help the vulnerable, make new friends, celebrate, and change the world. Let’s start clashes, riots, insurrections, rebellions, and revolutions ! Set ablaze a million grassroot fires!

As our world slowly crumbles, countless radicals have thrown themselves completely into the struggle for a better world. There are people fighting in the streets, helping out the vulnerable, building networks of care and agitating others to join the fight. Many have been brave enough to go as far as to put there lives on the line. Is this not preparing the soil for the new world? Is this not planting seeds of resistance? If you look hard enough, you will see that the flower of revolution is currently blooming, however slowly.

Those who speak of the revolution as a distant event are hopeless daydreamers who need a wake up call to reality. There is a revolutionary aspect to everyday life. There is an immense power in the everyday acts of resistance. The little “r” revolution has always been as important as the big “R” revolution. We may not abolish the present state of things immediately, but we can ignite a contagious burning desire for liberation in others. Slowly, we can build an inferno that will incinerate the prevailing order. Revolution takes time. Revolution is not inevitable, but must be willed.

Listen Marxist!

Revolution is not the rapture. Revolution does not end. Revolution is a never-ending revolt against current conditions. An uncompromising fight for total liberation that will never back down until every form of domination is destroyed. The fight does not stop until all peoples break free from there chains. Anything less is unacceptable.

Revolution is not a game of follow your leader. Glorifying old dead men makes us forget the power within each of us. Revolution is about creating a burning desire for revolt within each and every person. It’s about becoming active agents of change in the course of history, and not a passive observers. It’s realizing we are already free. It’s “killing your idols” and realizing that every single one of us has the potential to change the world.

Revolution is not about blood-lust. While revolution is never peaceful, true revolutionaries are conscious to commit violence only as defense. Our fight is against systems of domination and not people. The countless crimes against humanity of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Enver Hoxha, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-Il do not need repeating. The means can never be disentangled from the ends. Unlike Marxism, Anarchism doesn’t have a genocide on its record. How about we listen to Bakunin this time?

Revolution is not for the red bourgeoise. Revolution is about empowering the common person with the tools to destroy their chains. It’s not about slogging people with obscurantist post-marxist jargon that is only a tool for the ivory towers. Revolution is about destroying all forms of domination, not shuffling the walls of power through reform or revolution. It’s about putting power back into the hands of people, and not into your “workers state”. Revolution is something that is from below, and not from above. Revolution is a carnival by the oppressed and for the oppressed.

Revolution is not a distant event. Revolution is gradually built in the present. Theory, protest cycles, party meetings, and elections are ultimately distractions from the revolution that is everyday life. There is no reason to wait to be saved. There is no reason to not fight like hell at the present moment.

The revolution is now!