your (cool as fuck) secretive direct action is also not going to stop the war machine
and pretending you don’t need others while escalating your tactics is just going to isolate you and your comrades and make you easier targets for repression
a few comrades breaking something in the dead of night does not have the same effect as 1000 people breaking that same thing together
like, it’s surely the case that a small number of militants were instrumental in the burning of the 3rd precinct
but thousands of people were a fucking part of it and claimed it as their own. there’s deep power there.
remember:
“when the work’s done right,
with no fuss or boasting,
ordinary people say,
Oh, we did it”
(tao te ching)
a militant’s cooler-than-thou attitude is as much a part of this prison world as a liberal’s fear of militant tactics
both are trapped by their need to be a “good person,” to be the one doing the “right” thing
both are trapped in the prison of the self, of the ego
this struggle is not simply a military campaign but also a process of collective unlearning, of prisonbreaking our minds and spirits
on these battlefields “theater” is a powerful tool, for good and ill. do not discount it
do not let yourself be deceived into thinking you have learned all there is to know.
remember:
“NO ONE WAY WORKS, it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down”
(revolutionary letters)
— another criminal queer in the eddies of the ancestral current
p.s. keep fucking shit up, i love you. stay free
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