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There are bonds that the State and its operators will never understand because they upturn the usual criteria of evaluation. In a world based on profit and the will to power human beings generally unite to get a few steps up the social ladder – to earn something more, have major opportunities of success. On the contrary, relations among anarchists seem deliberately conceived to make them social failures. In the space of a few years you can throw away any possibility of a career, of having a bank account or even simply a passport. Often one’s freedom is at stake. For some life itself. Which is why these relations will never be understood by those driven by competition and obedience.

Isn’t it a wonderful mystery that individuals ready to burn the quiet life in order to conquer freedom for themselves and others still exist?

In the reign of intelligent machines, algorithms, cost-benefits calculations, such an attitude seems highly irrational, you will agree.

Agnese, Stecco, Nico, Sasha, Giulio, Rupert and Poza are some of these wonderful exceptions, of these defective rejects, these surprises. Generous, in solidarity, resolute. Like the actions they are accused of.

Action – not doing, programming, activating, calculating or archiving… – is precisely what distinguishes the human from the machine.

Like everything that has to do with freedom, actions against power are repressed, also twisted and slandered so that they lose all meaning. Yet they are hard to die – suspended in a time of their own.

https://anarchistnews.org/content/elusive-relations-actions-against-time