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Title: Guerilla anarchism Author: Anonymous Date: 7th November 2018 Language: en Topics: guerrilla war, insurrectionary anarchy, insurrection, Anarchist Fighter Source: Retrieved on 15th August 2020 from https://bo-ak.org/index.php/en/theory-en/102-guerilla-anarchism
We state that it is either a fool or a scoundrel who can support the
current system in Russia. Most of the proposed “alternatives” contain,
albeit under a different sauce, the same “values” on which today’s power
stands — hierarchy, relations of domination and subordination,
competition, greed, etc. It is not difficult to see that these “values”
defects social life of our country.
Anarchism appeals to the thirst for freedom and equal collectivity.
So, anarchism struggles not only with state oppression, with
exploitation and alienation generated by capitalism — it rises against
the vices that nestled among the “ordinary people”: cynicism,
selfishness, fear and servility, mercantilism. Anarchists offer an
ordinary person to wake up and become free off the gloom of modern
social models and live a decent free and responsible life.
What is the meaning of the figure of the partisan and partisans, as
phenomena, in the contemporary Russian-speaking culture? First of all,
the concept of partisans has a stable positive value. The reason for
this is the partisan heroics of World War II and the image of the
revolutionary guerrilla in Soviet culture — from the civil war to the
liberation movements in the Third World. For our ears, the word
guerrilla sounds warm.
Meanwhile, the partisan is a figure initially opposed to the state.
Partisans fight against regular army and institutions of power which
dominate in the area of their activity. Guerilla movement is
characterized by self-organization, self-discipline, a close
relationship with the people. These qualities already endow the partisan
practice with a certain amount of anarchy.
Partizan is an armed fighter and a direct action practitioner. These
properties alienate partisanism from any conciliationism, from the
search for a compromise with authorities, and from attempts to integrate
itself into existing system. Partizanism challenges and fights the enemy
until victory. When people are involved in gueriila, they gain
independence, break with submission. This is a sign of the seriousness
of the intention not to return to the former submissive state.
It is significant that a number of victorious revolutionary movements of
the twentieth and of the beginning of the 21^(st) centuries acquired the
form of guerrilla warfare as the most effective practice of victory over
tyrannical regimes, similar to the one that has now been established in
our country.
Finally, guerilla creates a new world by the only fact of its appearance
and existence. The rebels create a free from oppression space at the
moment thay deploy guerilla warfare. They put into practice an
alternative lifestyle in which the first violin is played by collective
resistance, partnership and radical rejection of the system of
injustice.
That is why we strongly believe that modern anarchism, as a deep world
view and as a successful practice, is doomed to be guerilla.