The Insurrectional Project
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PREFACE
If we refuse to let our lives be organised by others we must have thecapacity to organise ourselves, that is, we must be able to ‘put together theelements necessary to act as a coherent functioning whole’. For anarchists,individuals who ardently desire the elimination of every trace of tyranny anddomestication, this has been experimented in a myriad of forms according to prevailing social and economic conditions, and marked by each one’s particular concept of wholeness. If this could once be interpreted—by some—to mean a big organisation to oppose big industry, today social disintegration and uncer-tainty have gone further than any critique in relegating such undertakings to the pages of history. We are left with the exquisite dilemma: if my freedom dependson the freedom of all, does not the freedom of all depend on my acting to freemyself? And if all the exploited are not acting to free themselves—as a tangiblecomposite whole—how can I function, i.e. organise myself, to destroy the real-ity that oppresses me without delay? In other words, how can I act as a wholethat seeks to expand and enhance itself to infinity? Having refused the sop of participation, voluntary work and progressive change with which the democraticideology seeks to satiate its bloated subjects, I am left with myself and my un-mediated strength. I seek my accomplices: two or three, hundreds or hundredsof thousands, to upset and attack the present social order right now—in the tinyact that gives immediate joy, indicating that sabotage is possible for everyone;or in great moments of mass destruction where creativity and anger combinein unpredictable collusion. I am therefore faced with the problem of creating a project whose immediate aim is destruction, which in turn creates space for thenew.What holds things together and puts my actions in context cannottherefore be a fixed formal organisation, but the development of the capacityto organise myself, alone and with others, where numbers are not an aim, butare always potentially present. In other words, I must create an insurrectional project which already contains all the elements of a revolutionary perspective: thedecision to act now; analysis of the present time taking account of the profoundtransformations capital is undergoing globally and which have had an effect on
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