A critique on the leftist strangle hold over the realisation of rebellion.

Socialism is a religion, no more no less. Like all religions it starts when a thinker/idealist comes along, puts forward a few ideas, might be right might be wrong (history has shown marx was wrong) and in the fawning adulation of his (nearly always his!) fans a new cult is born.

The ideas of marx were vicious bile at the time; he worshipped the new religion of science, and foamed at the mouth to eradicate all cultures outside of the "superior" northern european/capitalist culture. Supported by the "revolutionary" business man engels, marx lived the life of a bourgeois gent, while his wife and children suffered terribly. Two children actually dying of poverty related illness while marx "kept up appearances", always the patriarch.

The religion formed on the basis of marx's (not very original ideas) turned out to be no better than all the religions and vicious cults that had blighted life on earth before. socialism swept across the earth devouring and destroying all life in its path, from Russia to Cuba, Nicaragua to Berlin. The cult of socialism attempted to out run its competitive brother, the capitalist empire, by its acts of barbarism. With extreme levels of viciousness they would invade were they could, to devastate the natural environment and enslave and butcher the population, all in the name of the "enlightenment", for the glory of the "Revolution" (read socialist party/doctrine).

Unbelievably, these cretins, who obviously are not satisfied by the devastation they reeked upon the earth and the millions, who inhabit it, want to re-run the show again! The collapse of their empire in the late 80's should have been the end of this repugnant religion (which does not even have the credit of offering heaven, but merely more of the same enslavement and drudgery or worse). Unfortunately for the humans who want to end all slavery, drudgery and misery the vile evil dead of socialism is constantly trying to resurrect itself, by reinventing itself in various forms. But happily the majority of the population are indifferent (with a great deal of out-right hostility) to the machinations, manipulations and callous calculations of politicians (right, left and centre or so-called "independent"). No attempt to beguile people into following or signing up to their cult appears to be working. However this is not to say that people should be complacent and ignore them, as is shown in Brazil, when people are desperate they will give these idiots a try. Religion and the abdication of the power to control your own life should not be the last choice, fatalism is no choice. There needs to be a radical alternative to the failed (and repugnant) ideas of the past.

The world we live in has been devastated by socialists, fascists, capitalists, christian guru's, buddist gurus, muslim gurus. An end to the continuing desolation of life on earth must be brought about, the sooner the better. This task of taking on the totality and destroying that which is destroying us must involve the eradication of all the cults that have played a direct role in bringing the earth to the brink of collapse. Which have degraded life to the extent we are presently at.

The upsurge of radical/revolutionary activity through-out the 1990’s was a rejection of leftist organisation, mass movement building and its inherent manipulation. The movement which developed and grew was “more possible than they could have powerfully imagined”. However, by 1999, the left seen its opportunity and bizarrely was welcomed with open arms by the burgeoning revolutionary movement. The decline set in. And as the Freedom Club (“Industrial Society and its Future”) put it “the resulting influx of leftish types can easily turn a non-leftist movement into a leftist one, so that leftist goals replace or distort the original goals of the movement”. This is exactly what has happened, the “movement” went from being a possible revolutionary threat to a “protest movement” over-night! The focus no-longer on direct action but on “mass protests” to recruit people. The radical growth during the 90’s is now dead, buried under the weight of sad, predictable protest. A lot of us, though can see what went wrong. Again to quote “Industrial Society and its Future”, “to avoid this, a movement that exalts nature and opposes technology must take a resolutely anti-leftist stance and must avoid collaboration with leftists. Leftism is…inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology”.

“Our liberation movement needs to be qualitatively different from the failed, limited approaches of the past” (John Zerzan, “The Imperialism of Everyday Life”). The Earth we live in, our very lives are being ruined everyday, our task as human beings is to dismantle all this. We must move away from the failures of the past and strike crippling blows against this society as well as attempt to re-wild ourselves while offering this possibility out to the wider “community” we live in (not just politicos!)

Most of the people reading this will perhaps recoil from the argument proposed and the necessity to face up to the reality we are in, they may cling to the hope of "reform" (a consistent failure) or hold to the belief in the intervention of some mystical forces who will bring about the "inevitable overthrow" of this society. Inherent in this latter belief is that we humans are incapable of changing life on this planet. It advocates passivity and safe protest. Perhaps even a lot of people now reading this will shrink back from the idea of giving up their "luxuries", which have all come at the expense of life on earth?


A very short list of possibilities:
The fight back, in our opinion, must obviously involve economic sabotage and vital to this is the development of strong links with the wider “community” (i.e. people outside the “scene”). This latter we believe can be done through open spaces for film shows, talks and food (attempting to avoid ghettoisation). The food issue, we would argue, is extremely important. The food can be produced locally (a community garden, for example) and given away or for a donation that people can see is used within the local community (a la Black Panthers & The Move).

Obviously this is simply the opinion of a few people and is not a list of “to do’s”. Make up your own list of priorities?

Love

BARK