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Face up to war

Angry Bastard | 17.01.2002 17:37

I know I'll be shouted down for this and be told I am an agent of the state undermining IMC or stupid for considering violence, but isn't it time we armed ourselves? This murderous system isn't going to fall by singing peace songs and drinking herbal tea. If capitalism and the state are to fall and we are serious about revolution, isn't it time we organise underground resistance?

I'm more and more frustrated at the way in which informed opinions of the large numbers of those who reject this evil system of capitalism and war are being shat on. Just holding a demonstration outside the US embassy or some summit of the bastards that are destroying this world means you are filmed and beaten by the cops and intimidated so that no-one gets to hear the truth. There is more police brutality directed at peace protestors and anti-capitalists than any other group because of a few broken windows at McDonalds. I'm pissed off that me and my comrades are treated like pig-shit by the state and that we have to take it lying down for fear of appearing immoral or violent. Yet the media and the politicians they employ still make us look like lunatics out for violence. Well, I'm pissed off with this state of affairs. I don't want to take this shit lying down all the time. I don't want to come away from demonstrations feeling depressed and covered in cuts and bruises. I don't even want to demonstrate any more. I want action against the evil filth that are ruining our world and the only action is armed action.

I know that it might seem stupid to some activists, but why is it that many people worship guerrillas like Che Guevara and Subcomandante Marcos, yet reject armed combat here? Why is it you like Marx, but shy away from the one thing central to Marxist theory: class war? Why do you pontificate in your university classrooms and read Chomsky, but end up just being another minion in the system? If we are all going to hell, then we might as well try and fight against it instead of all these useless demonstrations and talking endlessly to one another. The end-point of all revolutionary thought is conflict and maye we've got to wake up and realise that.

The main problem is trying to reach one another and form a guerrilla that the state can't penetrate.

Angry Bastard

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  1. class, violence and power — internationalist
  2. nope — me
  3. Brief history of the European Urban Guerrilla — evolutionary
  4. Required reading — jb
  5. "You say you want a revolution, well you know — John Lennon
  6. Angry Brigade — Anarchist Rioter
  7. and whats more... — Guy Taylor
  8. Remember Portugal — Midbnight Moron
  9. Not yet — Disillusioned kid
  10. No such thing as peaceful revolution — Angry Bastard
  11. erm, excuse me! — internationalist
  12. Ho Hum — Anarchist Rioter