Fight for our lives

Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one can control your life better than you. Anarchism means meeting our individual needs together. Anarchism means working with each other, not for or against anyone. And if all this is impossible, then anarchism means preferring resistance to submission.

Anarchism means putting no system or ideology above people, no theory about the world. Anarchism means siding with real people, animals and ecosystems and fighting concretely for ourselves and for others - not for a "cause" based on an abstract "responsibility". Anarchism means rejecting the ideas of a universal truth, aesthetics or morality and opposing the doctrine of a one-dimensional life wherever it may appear.

Anarchism means that you do not subject your desires and experiences to any hierarchical order, but rather understand them all as valuable - that you accept yourself. Anarchism means not subjecting your self to external laws, not reducing your feelings to the “rational” or the “useful” or the “political”, not forcing your instincts and passions into categories. There is no cage large enough to accommodate the human soul and all its flights, all its ups and downs. Anarchism means finding a way of life that gives free rein to all your contradictory tendencies while constantly challenging and changing them.

Anarchism means not valuing one moment of life over another. Anarchism means not being nostalgic for the good old days or waiting for tomorrow (or, for that matter, revolution). It's about seizing and creating our lives in this exact moment. Of course we will enjoy memories and plan for the future - but at the same time we will be aware that there is only one moment when happiness, resistance, life really happens: now, now, now!

Anarchism means that you refuse to give responsibility for your life to others - not your bosses, not your parents, not your lovers, not society. It means determining the search for meaning and happiness in your life.

More than anything, anarchism means not accepting this manifesto as it is, any more than any other, but rather (re)creating it for yourself.

When people ask me about my politics, I say: The best reason for being a revolutionary is that this way of living is simply the better one. The laws of those in power guarantee us the right to a public trial before a jury of equal status to us, “a jury of our peers”. (Although my peers wouldn't put me on trial - yours?) But what about the right to live our lives as if we don't have a second chance? What about the right to a life that forces us to stay up all night because there is so much to talk about? A life that never leaves us looking back on a day with regret or bitterness? It is these rights that we must take. Shouldn't this be our priority? Instead of worrying about following the rules and just surviving somehow?

For those of us who are prisoners of a system sustained by the blood and sweat of other prisoners even less fortunate than us, rising to the challenge of living a life worth living - a life full of stories worth telling - is a lifelong (and wonderful) project. What it takes to meet this challenge is to fight our captivity at every moment. In this fight we fight for our lives.

It's true. If your idea of ​​how people should treat each other is like a dinner with friends - where everyone enjoys each other's company, shares tasks voluntarily and easily, and where no one gives instructions or sells anything - then you are anarchists. Plain and simple. The only question is how often you manage to create situations like this.

Whenever you make a decision and act without waiting for instructions or official permission, you are anarchists. Any time you cheat your way past a ridiculous rule, you are anarchists. If you don't trust the decisions of the government, or the managerial class, or the school system, or Hollywood, or anyone or anything else, you are anarchists. And in particular, you are anarchists if you have your own ideas, projects and solutions instead.

As you can see, it is anarchism that keeps things going and makes life interesting. If we always just waited for the authorities and experts and technocrats to take care of everything, not only would we get into huge trouble, but our world would also be terribly boring. The more personal responsibility and self-control we give up, the closer we come to such a world. This is clearer today than ever before.

Anarchism lies as a potential in every person. This has nothing to do with throwing bombs or wearing black masks, although you may have seen that on TV. (Do you believe everything you see on TV? That's not anarchist!) The root of anarchism is the simple impulse to take matters into your own hands. Everything else follows from this.

People who know little about history often claim that anarchy can never work. They fail to understand that not only has anarchy historically worked for most of humanity, but it is also working right now. We don't even need to cite the Paris Commune, Republican Spain, Woodstock, open source software or other famous cases of successful revolutionary anarchism. Anarchy is simply cooperative self-determination and as such is part of our daily lives - not something that will happen "after the revolution." Anarchy works today for communities of friends everywhere - the question is how we can make more and more aspects of our social and economic lives anarchist. Anarchy is revealed when people cooperate on a camping trip or cook free meals for the homeless - the question is how we can extend these experiences to our schools, our workplaces and our neighborhoods.

Let's take a look at chaos theory: Anarchy is chaos, and chaos is order. Every naturally ordered system - a rainforest, a solidarity-based living community - is a harmonious system whose balance is due to chaos and chance. In contrast, systematic disorder – school discipline, genetic modification – can only be maintained by increasing amounts of power. People who think that disorder is simply the absence of system are confusing disorder with anarchy. Disorder is the most merciless system of all: disorder and unresolved conflict quickly systematize, creating hierarchies that meet their ruthless demands. The result is selfishness, heartlessness, and the desire for power. Disorder in its most developed form is capitalism: the war of all against all. Rule or be ruled! Sell ​​or be sold! From the earth to the sky...

We live in times of particularly pronounced hierarchies and particularly pronounced violence. The lunatics who think they benefit from these hierarchies tell us that without them the violence would be much worse. They don't understand that the violence lies in the hierarchies themselves. (Whether they are expressed in the form of economic or political inequalities.) This is not to say that the violent overthrow of hierarchies would mean an immediate end to all violence - hierarchies not only create violence, they also underlie violence. Still, there can be no peace until we are all free enough to unite on our own terms - and not under the guns aimed at us by those who profit from our disunity.

Of course, the current system relies on more than the power of guns, on more than hierarchies or the imperative of “Kill or be killed!” It also relies on the myth of its success. Official historiography explains history to us as a playground for great men, their actions and their consequences. According to this logic, there are few subjects in history - most of us are nothing but its objects. Hierarchies are built on the idea that there is only one truly "free" man: the king (or the president, CEO, movie star, etc.). Since this supposedly always has been and always will be, we are encouraged to struggle to become that man - or, failing that, to gratefully accept the position to which we have arrived, glad that there are still those among us to step on if we want to reassure ourselves of our own worth.

But even the king doesn't have the freedom to walk wherever he wants. But why should we be satisfied with just one part of the world? Or none at all? Where there is no violence - in the egalitarian beds of real lovers, in the democracy of devoted friendships, in the celebrations of equals, in the chats with neighbors - we are all queens and kings. Whether anarchy is achievable or not, one thing is clear: hierarchy cannot be the answer. Look at the model cities of the “new order” of the world. For example, sit in a traffic jam with drivers sweating and cursing in isolated unity in their private vehicles, a poisoned sea to the left and a ghetto fought over by uniformed and non-uniformed gangs to the right - and then extol the glory of human progress. If that's order, why not try chaos?

Saying that anarchists are dedicated to anarchism makes about as much sense as saying that pianists are dedicated to pianism. There is no anarchism - but there is anarchy, or rather: anarchies.

For as long as power has existed, there has been the spirit of anarchy (whether it was called that or not), which has sustained millions together as well as the resilience of individuals. The examples are endless: the slaves and the "savages" who fought for their freedom against the Romans and lived in armed freedom, equality and fraternity; the mothers who taught their daughters to love their bodies despite all the diet advertisements; the rebels who painted their faces and threw tea into Boston Harbor; and all the others who decided to act independently, whether they called themselves Ranters, Taborites, Communards, abolitionists, Yippies, Syndicalists, Quakers, Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Food Not Bombs, libertarians or even Republicans - they were all anarchists. And we are also anarchists when we act independently, and here too there are numerous examples: Today there are just as many anarchists as there are students who skip school, parents who don't pay their taxes, women who assemble bicycles, lovers who desire outside the norms. To be anarchists, they do not have to vote for an anarchist party or follow a party line - in fact, that is exactly what would make them non-anarchists, at least in the moments when they do so. Anarchy is a way of being, a certain way of dealing with social conditions and relating to other people. Anarchy is a type or class of human behavior... and not that of the "working" class!

Forget the history of anarchism as an “idea” – forget the men with the beards! It's one thing to express something - it's quite another to live it. It's not about theories or formulas of salvation, heroes or biographies - it's about your life! It's about anarchy, not salon anarchism - the former happens everywhere, the latter is the study of freedom, pursued by a few specialists. There are self-proclaimed anarchists who have never experienced anarchy. Do you really want to trust them?

What should the anarchist utopia look like? This is a trick question, a question designed to get us to argue - it's a feint, a diversionary tactic. It's not about a utopia, a program or an ideal. It's about following a path, creating relationships, dealing with problems - this process will never end. Being an anarchist means not believing that anarchy - let alone anarchism - will solve all our problems. It just means realizing that it is up to us to address our problems and that no one and nothing can do it for us. It means admitting that, whether we like it or not, our lives are in our own hands.

Anarchists use democracy - but we don't allow democracy to use us. The only thing that counts for us in decision-making processes are the needs and feelings of the people affected. The methods of decision-making themselves are never more than provisional. We use certain methods if they serve human needs, but beyond that they have no meaning for us. In any case, we do not allow any methods to lock us into formal constraints. Should the priority be on any systems – or on us?

We will work with other people – and all life forms – whenever possible. But we do not submit to the idea of ​​consensus, let alone the rule of any law that governs our values ​​and dreams. When we can't reach agreement, we go our own way instead of limiting each other. In extreme cases - when others refuse to acknowledge our needs or act unscrupulously and repeatedly harming other lives - arguments will arise. Not in the name of justice or retaliation, but simply to assert our own interests.

To us, laws are little more than shadows of the customs of those who came before us. Customs that have been defended over a longer period of time and therefore appear wiser than our own. They are like zombies that impose arbitrary restrictions on our freedom. They have nothing to do with justice, but at best they stand in the way of it, alienate us from it and reduce it to obscure formalities under the wigs of some judge. The laws that have been created over the decades under this logic are now so numerous, unmanageable and inscrutable that it requires a priestly class of lawyers who make a living (at our expense) by interpreting the messages that our well-meaning ancestors left us in the form of these laws. The man who insists that justice can only be upheld by the rule of law is the same man who appears on the witness stand at the war crimes tribunal and swears that he was only obeying orders. There is no justice - there is only us. (“There’s no justice – it’s just us.”)

Anarchist economies are radically different from other economies. Not only do anarchists exchange differently, they also do so in a completely different currency: one that cannot be converted into a fortune that capitalists fight over or that communists make five-year plans for. Capitalists, socialists, communists exchange products; Anarchists exchange help, inspiration, loyalty. Capitalist, socialist, communist economies turn human relationships into commodities: administration, health care, education, even sex become services that are bought and sold. Anarchist economies, which focus primarily on the needs and desires of the individuals involved, turn products into social relationships again: the communal experience of gardening or dumpster diving or making music together; occupying a house; the high of shoplifting at the supermarket. The characteristic economic relationship of capitalism is purchase - that of anarchy is the gift.

Anarchist economies are based on social capital – the opposite of private property. Private capital has only two possible uses: either it disappears (like the wages of day laborers when they buy their food after work) or (if there is enough of it, as in the case of the corporations that exploit day laborers) it is used to create more and more capital at the expense of others. Social capital, on the other hand, is constantly in abundance and for everyone. And the more we contribute to it, the stronger it becomes and serves us: from the community garden, which produces more food the more people take care of it, to the squat, which functions better and is more defensible the more people participate in its design and activities. The examples are endless, from our friendships and romantic relationships to communal meals and celebrations: the more we give as individuals, the more everyone receives.

Most of us today operate in both anarchist and capitalist economies. For example, some things that are generally considered private property are sometimes still used or shared collectively - for example, when we take our basketball to a game with others in the park or a rock band buys a bus together. Even in middle-class houses - taboo for most people - relatives are usually still welcomed, P.T.A. meetings are organized and parties take place. All of these opportunities remind us how much more fun sharing is than commerce. Anarchists work for a world where sharing knows no boundaries.

What is good for others is good for us, as our world is determined by our relationships with others. However, serving others at the expense of your own needs and desires helps no one. In order to be happy companions to others - which is perhaps the most valuable thing we have to offer - we must be happy ourselves. Self vs. others, self-interest vs. selflessness are false dichotomies for us (all dichotomies are false). The idea of ​​sacrificing oneself for the “communal good” is just as caught up in the competitive model of “individual vs. society” as the pursuit of “individual independence.” For us, both individuals and communities are moments in the infinite game of life, inextricably linked and corresponding to one another. The freedom and self-determination that we value are only possible in the context of a culture that we create together; but this collective creative process is not possible without individual ones.

All this means: If you can save yourself, you can save the world - but without saving the world, you will not be able to save yourself.

When anarchists suggest that we should model all our social relationships after friendship - or family - what we are primarily concerned with are the qualities that underlie friendship: reliability, generosity, goodness. Most of us have been socialized from birth into contexts of hierarchy and competition, and so it becomes difficult to behave toward others in ways that are liberating rather than restrictive - and yet this happens all the time! We all want to give without taking. We all want to be able to look in the mirror without having to be ashamed. It has been said that we are against marriage, but the opposite is more true: yes, we object to one human being being the property of another, but we emphasize that all of us on this planet are effectively married to one another; and we insist that we all behave accordingly.

None of this is intended to suggest that we are in favor of greeting soldiers with flowers when they come to get our children - nor are we going to offer our children to any corporation if they want flowers from us. Sometimes love has to speak through the barrel of the gun.

Neither expectation nor doctrine nor coercion should lead us to place one part of ourselves above others. We must not side with some of our desires, not stage our own eternal trial, not pass judgment on our feelings. We must not protect ignorance with inaction, but rather learn from our mistakes and become wiser in this way. We must not choose one path in life over all others, but rather discard all one-dimensional concepts. We must give expression to every impulse and every longing within us when we see the time has come. We must appreciate what is fruitful in confusion. This must be done with the awareness that we are part of a community that values ​​us unconditionally - just as we value others unconditionally (and completely) because they are part of us. To live without a pecking order and a power structure (both internal and external) – that is the anarchist dream of the self.

A community in which people determine their own activities and care for each other does not need prisons and factories for there to be "work." A community in which people provide each other with information themselves does not need media companies to find out the “truth”. In a community where people create their own music and art and organize their own events, there would be no place for the stultifying spectacle of MTV, let alone online dating or pornography. In a community where people know each other and understand each other's desires, problems can be solved without the interference of uniformed and armed strangers. The degree to which we can overcome our current difficulties depends on the level of development of these communities. No legislation or charity will be able to help us here.

Institutions can never be better than the people who form them - and usually they are not good in any case. Solutions that come “from above” have always proven ineffective: the bureaucracy of health programs, the inefficiency of social welfare programs, the lies of presidents. "If you don't trust people, you certainly can't trust the police."

Anarchism is aristocratic – only we are all the aristocracy. As anarchists, we emphasize that the struggle of the "ordinary people" can become the struggle of the extraordinary women and men it produces.

We don't believe there are any shortcuts to anarchy. Our aim is not to lead the “masses”, but rather to establish a community of independent people. We don't want to be avant-garde theorists, but rather inspire readers to become authors themselves. We don't want to be an avant-garde artist, but we want to create an audience of artists. We are less concerned with destroying power than with making it abundantly available to everyone. We want to be rulers without slaves.

We accept that power struggles and power dynamics will always be part of human life. So many of us have a "tyrannical muse" that we obey - but we do so voluntarily and only allow the muse to command when we please. As the saying goes, the only free people are the beggar and the king. The king is the less free of the two - after all, his kingdom is still a burden and a constraint on him, while the hobos, on their happiest days, can feel as if the cosmos exists only for their pleasure and freedom. We refuse to enter the battle over trivialities such as property or authority. Generally speaking, when struggle is unavoidable, we would rather see ourselves at the mercy of the violence and arbitrariness of other individuals than the violence and arbitrariness of the state.

We are not egalitarians in the traditional sense. Our aim is not to reduce the rich and powerful to a lower level. Rather, we regret that they are not ambitious enough and do not give up their privileges to help bring everyone to the highest level (in which case we could avoid guillotining them). We have nothing against the veneration given to pop idols and movie stars - we just deplore the fact that this veneration is wasted on distant icons when it should be given to the wonderful moments of our own adventurous lives. We have nothing against the devotion that the monotheists' God experiences - we would simply find it better if we were devoted to each other. Strictly speaking, we have nothing against property, we just object to the folly of arguing about property. We believe that if we truly want to rule the world, we must divide it rather than destroy it. The true Beggar King proudly wanders the endless forests he owns, admiring the diversity of life forms and knowing that the only appropriate principles for the monarch of such a wonderful world are gratitude and restraint (except when it comes to occasionally sabotaging the work of a lumber company). We are not waiting for one big revolution to get the rights we deserve. Since we ourselves are the highest authorities we recognize, we take these rights for ourselves, right now. Our revolution consists in the permanent affirmation and defense of these rights.We will accept nothing less than total world domination - for each individual and for all of us together.

Anarchists not only reject the authority of God (the police chief of the universe), but also treat all of his successors with deep skepticism: of nature, of history, of science, of morality. We should not believe in anything uncritically, because even though we may sometimes value the judgment of others more highly than our own (because we believe that these others know more about the issues at issue), it is still we who are responsible for giving confidence to that judgment. Accordingly, there is no judgment for us that is beyond criticism or questionability. We would rather move freely between different paradigms than argue about the truth. We are particularly skeptical about so-called experts who want to mediate between us and some gods and goddesses or spheres of privileged knowledge. We prefer both to learn about the world ourselves and to come into contact with the divine ourselves.

We attach little value to justice in the form of moral judgments. We want to be practical and solve problems, not turn human relationships and behavior into commodities that can be exchanged (with moral self-righteousness as currency). We emphasize the principle of personal responsibility only as long as it is useful for our social relationships. We are no more interested in whether a person's soul is damned or redeemed than in whether a person's behavior is moral or immoral, or whether society or the individual is to blame for this or that evil.

However, do not claim that we consider nothing sacred! On the contrary: we consider everything to be sacred! Rejecting hierarchy means honoring the uniqueness and beauty of every living being, every expression of the cosmos, every moment. Contempt and devaluation are anathema to us.

Graffiti on a church in Lisbon, 2001: “Without truth, you are the loser.”

We are all divided into categories ranging from gender and sexual orientation to body structure and ethnicity to class and race. These categories make up a significant part of our mastery. We are bribed with privilege and used psychological warfare to play our part in maintaining the pecking order. White supremacy, patriarchy and heterosexism are the cornerstones of this “civilization”. We anarchists fight against all these categories, whether we encounter them in society or within ourselves. But we fight for more than the liberation of people of all identities – we fight for the liberation of people of all identities.

We don't believe in universals. Collective identities are self-reproducing fabrications that begin with prejudice and end with imposed uniformity. For example, there are exactly two genders and no more, and exactly twelve tones in an octave and no more. The latter seems obvious when we look at a piano, but what about when we open our mouth and start singing? The same applies to our images of "femininity", which are supposedly just "natural" (at least for everyone who grew up in a society in which women shave their armpits and legs): in fact, this "femininity" is nothing but a generalization that comes from generations of standardized behavior and is reinforced with each subsequent repetition. There is no “entity” to which such a generalization could ever apply. At best, there are a number of individual examples that appear to have certain commonalities. No generation is the original, they are all just copies. This also means that the dominant paradigm faces immense danger with each new generation, as that generation may choose to transform the paradigm...or abolish it.

The only way to refer to generalizations like class or gender is one that simultaneously contributes to their dissolution; that is, one that exposes their functions of domination, attacks them and liberates the experiences they have suppressed. We want to move beyond all of these categories and the conflicts they imply, but this will only happen if we begin to address them. In men's groups, people constructed as "men" can help each other short-circuit and change their programming. In women's groups, people who have been constructed as "women" can experiment without being disturbed by men.

At the same time, of course, we defend the right of all individuals to choose certain identities if they wish to do so - although we are surprised when people choose to be dominated, in this or any other way. The vision of a free life must not lead us to deny the fact that there is no place in the contemporary world that is already completely free from unequal distributions of power.

Our goal is revolution, not mere reform. We are not satisfied with demanding more rights for certain social groups or making the boundaries between different social categories a little more porous. We take and create the right to (re)create ourselves at any moment - which will inevitably mean the end of the categories and their order!

We are feminists who reject gender, trade unionists who reject work, artists who reject art. Our class war is a war against class, against all classes and against every classification. When we say we are against representation, we don't just mean representative "democracy." What we mean is that all of us are unique individuals and that none of us can speak for others. No politicians or abstractions, no delegates or quotas can represent us!

Be careful about “fighting.” Quite a few militants are militants only because they have an inkling of rebellion but little else. They interpret every confrontation as a conflict between good and evil, take an uncompromising stance, and draw boundaries between themselves and "everyone else" until it really seems as if they are fighting against the rest of the world. For would-be career militants, this may be an effective way to advance their careers - but it's unlikely to get people connecting with us. Most will simply stop listening to us. Who hasn't had enough of self-righteousness and aggressiveness?

There are always wars waiting to be fought – against, against, against. Waging these wars requires dualisms. Anarchists overcome wars by overcoming these dualisms. This is revolution. Don't get caught up in an existing battle and its rules.

Don't let yourself become a pawn in his strategy. Avoids the logic of conflicts of “democracy vs. terrorism” or “freedom vs. power.” Instead, overcome the preconditions of these conflicts so that people can come together in ways that were thought impossible to overthrow the entire paradigm of struggle.

So if you want to spark rebellion, don't draw a line between yourself and the rest of the world. Don't threaten those you see on the "other side." Don't promote a universal program, don't recruit, and, for God's sake, don't educate the "masses." Don't try to convince people of your opinion - instead, encourage them to form their own opinions. A variety of ideas are more anarchist than the anarchist idea. Any central organization or authority that orders insurrection only kills self-determination. However, self-determination alone allows individuals to promote the freedom of all and unite in common resistance. Self-determination or independence, like all good things, abounds. There is no need for a central committee to distribute them to subordinates lining up for them.

When it comes to thought provoking, don't try to tell the truth. Confuses the truth, undermines it, creates a space in which new truths can form. Raise questions instead of providing answers. (But remember that not all questions end with a question mark...) For revolutionaries, the meaning of a statement lies in its effects - not in its "objective truth." We leave such claims to philosophers and other scoundrels.

...but it is the kind of paradox that we anarchists enjoy: asking people to think for themselves; to seize power to abolish it; declaring war on war - all these are contradictions. But being openly hypocritical is a good tactic if you want the insurgents to depose you along with the authorities! Flying a black flag to demonstrate our dislike of flags sounds nonsensical - but in times when so many flags are flown that flaglessness is interpreted as passive acceptance, such nonsense may make sense. In any case, a black flag is better than a white one!

Creates impulses! Don't sit in endless meetings to determine when you will next meet and then determine what you will discuss at your meetings. If some masochistic comrades feel the strange compulsion to spend weeks, months, even years negotiating the formulation of a "program" to which everyone can commit, only to sacrifice a few more years of internal strife and division, then let them do so - but do not feel obligated to join just to prove how loyal you are to the revolution. Don't feel obligated to join anything - this is your revolution!

Creates impulses! Don’t demand change – make it happen with your actions. Everything you can achieve, you have to achieve yourself with your companions - and that's a lot: how to maintain your dignity in a crazy world; how you write your own life story and use it to inspire others. Acting on your desires allows you to live in harmony with them - otherwise you have to spend your life energy denying your desires. Jump down the street when you're happy, burn down a building when you're outraged. Love the flowers on the battlefield - it is easier to surrender to love when you are willing to fight for it. As you live out your own most secret desires, you will see that you are also living out those of others. Find projects that inspire you - projects that put you in situations in which you are completely absorbed in the here and now. Don't be afraid to be unrealistic - it is precisely the unreal that needs to be realized. You can't be creative if you can't dream!

Creates impulses! Anarchists don't give instructions - they create possibilities. Help others create opportunities for themselves by setting examples. Offer support, share your skills with others, create conditions in which all people can actively express their own radical desires. You'll be surprised at who will show up to fight the enemy in the streets when the chance arises!

Don't sigh and sign petitions, don't pose for cameras, don't wait for "opportunities." Instead, join city parades and street festivals; gain entry into abandoned houses to decorate them with giant banners; talk to strangers; experiment with your sexuality; in short, constantly maintain the feeling that something is happening! Live as if the future depends on your every action, and you will see that it will. Don't wait to show up - you're already there! Create your own life opportunities and turn your chains into wind chimes.

These days, living as an anarchist can be difficult, even frightening. You may be among those who hide their anarchism, at least in certain situations, so that others (equally fearful, and probably for the same reasons) do not accuse you of being too idealistic or too "irresponsible." (As if it weren't "irresponsible" to destroy the planet.)

You shouldn't be so shy - you are not alone. There are millions of us waiting for you to show yourselves; Millions who are ready to love you and laugh with you and fight side by side with you for a better world. Follow your heart to the places where we will meet. Please don't be late!

We don't want to be rude, but: Weren't you paying attention? We don't want to convert you to a religion or get you to vote for a party - on the contrary!

The best (and hardest) thing about everything we've said is that it's all in your hands!

Many thanks to Gabriel Kuhn for the translation.

This translation is originally from Gabriel's book 'New Anarchism' in the USA: Seattle and the Consequences and is also published in Message in a Bottle.

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