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Some have said and still say that these are "pre-revolutionary times". That's a pretty good intellectual cop-out for a professional faker. But a revolutionary cannot make such a statement without confessing himself to be no more than a weirdo. The degree of VACUUM found in this present-day society indicates clearly that this is a revolutionary time as no other before in history. Charles Manson has told us that we must read the books BACKWARDS and get all that "other stuff"– people, places and events from other times– out of our minds so that we can start dwelling in the NOW and start dealing with the NOW.
Trying to organize for what? To try to BECOME the Ku Klux Klan which effectively dealt with the NOW of the 1870's? To try to become the Nazi Party which effectively dealt with the NOW of the 1930's? Or to try to boost a damaged ego, to try to compensate for some frustration in life, to try to escape reality? I've seen it too much. I know it too well. And those FEW who are, or were, solid and sincere what chance have they got trying to "carry" and cater to a bunch of defectives and screwballs? That's Right Wingism also, and not revolution, and I got tired of it too.
The idea is not (or at least shouldn't be) to organize losers so that somebody willing to sink his paycheck into a paper front, and willing to get his head busted to get into the press, etc., can feel "safe" and unthreatened as a "leader". Nothing comes out of that as it is an escape, a pressure-release in itself. It has, in fact, its own demise built-in. I've wondered whether it's the System not allowing the Movement to develop into anything or if it's the Movement being unable to develop into anything. One fact is certain and from it we should all take a lesson: what the System is trying to prevent, what their "Maginot Line" is intended to guard against, is the same thing the Movement can't seem to muster and that is a serious, sober, effective, adult ORGANIZATION.
Stalemate. And in favor of the System.
Apart from being in possession of the Idea first, next the guts and intelligence, the greatest strength any member of the Movement can have is freedom and maneuverability. The comparisons between now and NS Germany, or even Weimar Germany , should cease as there is NO useful comparison, so different are the times and manners. No Adolf Hitler is going to join one of these idiotic groups with their absurd "commanders" as Member Number Seven and transform the thing overnight. For one, the "commander" wouldn't tolerate being upstaged. For another thing, such a mind as another Hitler would have to possess wouldn't tolerate the monkeyshines and shenanigans that the Movement is famous for. The nature of things now is immeasurably bigger and more inhuman than any other time or place. There is no time for comedies.
[Vol. XIV, # 7 – July, 1985]
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