Memory can stay alive, without becoming a symbol or liturgy, as long as it remains linked to a vital desire for permanent conflictuality, self-management of the struggle and attack. If acting becomes doing, a simple repetition of schemas disconnected from a more complex project, then we might as well give up. Already such a big part of our lives is losing any sense so increasing the emptiness around us only means harming ourselves alone.
The same goes for solidarity with those struck by the repression. How much do we ask ourselves what it means to continue the commitment and struggles interrupted by power and how much, on the contrary, do we engage in writing and distributing standardized leaflets where we always banally write the same things in sad repetition, always the same?
Similarly, when we confront heterogeneous contexts, how much imagination do we put into making anarchist projectuality show through our actions and in making our intolerance of hierarchies, formal or informal, evident? Hostility towards recuperation and authority reflects itself in the way we relate to the people who are carrying out different struggles, or do we really think that being in situations run and determined by others can somehow enrich us?
All this is what the revolt that broke out during the G8 tells us, as well as many past attempts at insubordination. All this is what new practices of freedom to experiment could suggest to us. Some of these experimentations of freedom are still happening, as the recent attack on the technological Polo of Erzelli in Genoa reminds us. Others we will continue to see, hopefully, in hoping that the snitches and recuperators of Genoa’s twentieth anniversary will find obstacles in their path. In Genoa as well as elsewhere.
The choice is up to each of us, for ourselves and our sensibilities.
It hurts to think at times, but only our own conscience can judge us. No one else.
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Translated by act for freedom now! via: csakavarna
