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This reader (https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2019/03/Insurrectional-Anarchi...)
is briefly reviewed in that issue of Anathema.

That reader could serve as a handy source to produce a more thorough critique (or praise, or ridicule) of the insurrectional tendencies. There are concepts that have been inherited from them, that are now commonly used, that have changed considerably in their meaning. There's much ambiguity and muddled thinking when using them.

Their slogans or bullet-point recipes can be compared and criticized alongside others:

From the cover of "INSURRECTIONAL ANARCHISM: a reader":

"Insurrectional anarchism emerges as a
perspective within the class struggle. This
perspective can be expressed in three key
principles:

(i) Permanent conflictuality: the struggle should never turn into mediation, bargaining or compromise;
(ii) Autonomy and self-activity: the struggle should be carried out without representatives and ‘specialists’;
(iii) Organization as attack: the organization should be used as a tool in the attack against state and capital, and not treated as a goal in and of itself.

What this means, in its most essential and concrete way, is this: to seize and keep the
initiative."

The Cinema Committee's abridged version 3 step slogan version of Inhabit's 9 step program.
They summarize these steps as a proposal to form communes:

"[1.] FIND EACH OTHER
[2.] ESTABLISH HUBS
[3.] BECOME RESILIENT"

(Source: A video embedded in this article [ https://itsgoingdown.org/we-share-our-mothers-health-building-communes-i... in this timestamp [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xStMCgOts-g&t=4m49s])

Inhabit's 9 step program:

"1 FIND EACH OTHER
2 ESTABLISH HUBS
3 BECOME RESILIENT
4 SHARE A FUTURE
5 BRING THE FIGHT
6 EXPAND THE NETWORK
7 BUILD AUTONOMY
8 DESTITUTE INFRASTRUCTURE
9 BECOME UNGOVERNABLE"

(Source: Picture of index of the book embedded here [https://itsgoingdown.org/living-fighting-autonomy-a-conversation-on-inha..., which can be read here [https://inhabit.global/]. In IGD they claim "Not a blueprint, and far from a call to drop out or remove ourselves from the world around us, Inhabit, pushes for a re-articulation of the revolutionary anti-capitalist and anti-state project at a time when the world is changing so fast, and so rapidly." Yet on their website, the index appears under the heading of "Instructions".)

These may also be compared with the numbered lists presented in "Art of Nothing" (Attentat, p. 6: https://libcom.org/files/Attentat.pdf) which are too many to be copy/pasted in this short comment, yet by itself it's a shorter read than the two previous texts cited above).

I look forward to any discussion that may (or may not) ensue.