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To pretend removing entirely the idea of an enemy is, well, pretentious. As even if you remove it from your head, the relation of conflict will not change, it will not remove aggression or domination patterns. Your squat can still get raided by cops and a Black dude still can get ambushed and shot by racist swine just for jogging...

So the narratives aim at changing a situation, by redefining it, and more importantly our own position in it. Yet I guess you need the right narrative that applies to the context you're in. Like these social media bread-bookers that keep pushing the international worker's strike, in the midst of the Covid shutdowns... ahem!

On the other hand, rent strikes... they got a lot more leeway in this context, if if they're still -let's admit it- part of a liberal narrative. They aren't necessarily give way for free communes to take place (even if they might in some cases I didn't hear about).

I'd also like NA anarchos to be more verbose about their projects and not just the narratives behind. As stories are just fan fiction when they aren't connecting with daily life. Among other things, I heard at least one or two squats got opened by people related to this site... so why aren't we hearing those stories instead of getting overstagnated all the time with Kevin Tucker and JZ?