Not a day goes by without my feeling aggressive or being provoked to a fight.
Commerce attacks me by forcing me to pay and the bank by forcing me to count,
while laws and authority deny my desires their liberty.
However it is no longer a violent explosion of rage
but the steadier violence by-passing them
which will sweep laws, banks and commerce away.
With attractive ease as the most natural thing in the world,
our common desire for autonomy will bring us together
to stop paying, working, following orders, giving up what we want,
growing old, feeling shame or familiarity with fear.
We will act instead on the pulse of pleasure, and live in love and creativity.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Le Livre des plaisirs (1979)
(Translated by John Fullerton as “The Book of Pleasures”)
Resistance Rising is a look into our lives with an incomplete but comprehensive critique with a foundation in primitivist thought. To be a radical, is to be at the root, to search for the foundations of the systems of control, and to dismantle them. At this point, leftism has proven itself to be reliant upon failing, and worse yet, grounded in the maintenance of systematic manipulation.We, as radicals, must go deeper, and began to cast off our ideological shackles that have bound us to a history of repetition and drudgery. Resistance is not revolution. Revolution, even the most radical ones we have been taught about, at times requires ideologies that bind us into boxes, crushing any creativity and true desire, secretly creating hierarchies of importance with our own lives. Resistance comes from a deeper, more primal place.
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