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I believe there is a pressing need to rid ourselves of the '90s version of anarcho-leftism as not only it proved to be a failed model as both activist tendency and subculture -with the famous bands RATM and ATR standing as outward expressions of its inner failings- and seek for new ways to ARTICULATE, express, de-criminalize and de-demonize anarchy, putting it back on the public place.

Which means...

- graffiti and broken windows are not enough (duh). One-war communications serve their purpose, yet do not provide with space/time for a conversation. You can't make accomplices that aren't around.

- building supporting infrastructures and networking, not just for your GANG or affinity group, for EVERYONE who's in the game. The group gimmicks are too alienating for lesser socially-skilled individuals. Even if socially-skilled people are needed, we can't just count only on those (or else, endless social loop just repeating the same problem over and over).

- trash the Revolution paradigm, in favor of the Social War. Not as some fascist militaristic doctrine, but on the contrary as a building of awareness of society as war, in itself. That there's this Leviathan and it's fighting against us, while we're often caught fighting for it as well. That the war starts every business day at 7 to 9 AM, and that it's a 24/7 war against the wild and free living, through sophisticated means of control and submission, just like brutal exploitation. It is a war for the State's preeminence, so how to counter it without becoming it. The Revolutionary paradigm was based on evolutionist marxism and has no place in a world where Everyprole can be a Capitalist Traitor, or at least a snitch.

- Building trust between PEOPLE, not institutions or whatever, is key. Practical solidarity is crucial in building trust. This means a form of engagement... not to imperatives or institutions, but to physical living beings. But over which issues? That's another important question. While it's nice and dreamy to be perceiving Everyprole as a potential comrade, that's JUST NOT THE WAY THINGS ARE, and this sets a precedent for more deception. So trust is something to build, not to assume proactively by design. Being a "prole" or an "oppressed" doesn't mean any stance or moral alignment by itself, as in the real world many oppressed people end up with the same old Stockholm syndrome.

So this would redefine the notion of anarchist engagement. Being not about some global event that would change our lives, but rather about a shift in our global vision of the world that affects our daily lives, giving it a radically different narrative, that can 1start at the individual level.

Theory is more about articulating than drawing goals or causes.