net anart archeology

[Aliette Guibert]

Cartier-Bresson on the net art, he messes it _;)

As for the money, who said that it wasted the happiness? It is indeed what
the rich always said to the poor men -no?

" And then and then, all the same all the same, a friendly salute to our
companion Henri Cartier-Bresson, who " an occasion never failed to throw its
war cry: " Long live Bakounine! " During his interviews " (communicated by
the CNT). And who wrote on Breton André (with whom he had "illustrated"
Nadja): " he has nothing of a female with his mane of lion and his haughty
head port, but he has something a little bit feminine, maybe of big
buttocks, I shall have to look. " ( Of a text of the beginning of 1960s,
published in 1995 under the title Breton André, King Soleil " at
Fata-Morgana ). "
( Extract from the newsletter 'La lettre versatile' by Jimmy Gladiator )

To know of what Makhno thought of it when he took refuge in Vincennes (Fr):
it can be not too late. One or two toddlers of the community who jumped on
the knees indeed have to be still alive somewhere? In any cases, he could
not have a big bottom because he rose on horseback could be? Look at the
Queen as she is ok.



Archeology

The Anarchist Revolution
Nestor Makhno



1.


ANARCHISM - a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity.

Anarchism does not depend on theory or programs, which try to grasp man's
life in its entirety. It is a teaching, which is based on real life, which
outgrows all artificial limitations, which cannot be constricted by any
system.

Anarchism's outward form is a free, non-governed society, which offers
freedom, equality and solidarity for its members. Its foundations are to be
found in man's sense of mutual responsibility, which has remained unchanged
in all places and times. This sense of responsibility is capable of securing
freedom and social justice for all men by its own unaided efforts. It is
also the foundation of true communism.


Anarchism therefore is a part of human nature, communism its logical
extension.

This led to the necessity of formulating anarchism's basic theories by the
use of factual material and by systematized analysis. Some people (enemies
of freedom, enemies of solidarity) were to try and conceal anarchism's
truths or to slander its ideals; others (fighters for man's right to lead a
proper life) were to develop and clarify this ideal. I think that Godwin,
Proudhon, Bakunin, Most, Kropotkin, Malatesta, S. Faure, and others never
believed, that they could harness anarchism, a framework of immutable
scientific dogma, by their theories. Instead, the teachings of anarchism
represent a concerted effort to show its roots in human nature, and to prove
that man's creative achievements never deviate from it; anarchism's
fundamental trait, the negation of all bondage and servitude, is likewise to
be found in human nature.
Anarchism means freedom; socialism cannot destroy chains or bondage.

I am an anarchist and a revolutionary myself, and I took part in the
activities of the revolutionary peoples of the Ukraine. The Ukrainians are a
people who grasp instinctively the meaning of the anarchist ideas and who
act them out. They suffered incredible hardship, but have never ceased to
talk of their freedom and freedom in their form of life. I often made
tactical errors on this difficult path, as I was often weak and unable to
make judgements. But because I correctly understood the goal towards which I
and my brothers were working and Iwas able to observe the effect of living
anarchism during the struggle for freedom and independence. I remain
convinced on the grounds of my practical fighting experience that anarchism
is as revolutionary, as diverse, and as sublime in every facet as ishuman
life itself. Even if I only felt the remotest glimmer of sympathy for
anarcho-revolutionary activity I would still call on you, reader and
brother, to take up the struggle for the ideal anarchism, for only if you
fight for this ideal and uphold itwill you understand it properly. Anarchism
is revolutionary in this and many other aspects. The more awake a man is,
the deeper his thoughts about his situation are. He will recognize his state
of slavery and the anarchistic and revolutionary spirit within him will wake
and show itself in his thoughts and actions. It is the same for every man
and woman, even if they could never have heard of it.

Anarchism plays a considerable role in the enrichment of human life, a fact
recognized by the oppressors as well as by the oppressed. The oppressors do
their best to distort the ideal of anarchism; the others do their best to
carry it further. Modern civilization has succeeded in making anarchism ever
more prominent for both masters and slaves, but has never been able to lull
or extinguish this fundamental protest of human nature, for it has been
unable to stamp out the independent intellects who have proven that God does
not exist. Once this has been proven it was easy to draw back the veil which
hides the artificiality of the priesthood and the hierarchies which it
supports.

But various other ideas have been propounded alongside anarchism:
"liberalism", socialism and bolshevik communism. These doctrines, despite
their large influence on modern society, despite their triumph over both
reaction and freedom, are on shaky ground because of their artificiality,
their disavowal of organic development and their tendency towards paralysis.
The free man, on the other hand, has thrown away the trammels of the past
together with its lies and brutality. He has buried the rotten corpse of
slavery and the notion that the past is better. Man has already partially
liberated himself from the fog of lies and brutality, which enslaved him
from the day of his birth, from the worship of the bayonet, money, legality,
and hypocritical science.

While man frees himself from this insult he understands himself better, and
once he has understood himself, the book of his life is opened to him. In it
he immediately sees that his former life was nothing but loathsome slavery
and that this framework of slavery has conspired to stifle all his innate
good qualities. He sees that this life has turned him into a beast of
burden, a slave for some or a master over others, or into a fool who tears
down and tramples on all that is noble in man when ordered to do so. But
when freedom awakes in man, it treads all artificialities into the dust and
all that stands in the way of independent creativity. This is how man moves
in his process of development. In former times he moved in spans of a
generation or so, but now the process is moving year by year; man does not
wish to be an academic mouthpiece of the rule over others or to tolerate the
rule of others over himself. Once man is free from earthlyand "heavenly"
gods, free from "good manners" and from his morality, which depends on these
Gods, he lifts up his voice and struggles against the enslavement of mankind
and the distortion of his nature.

The man of protest, who has fully grasped his identity and who now sees with
his eyes fully open, who now thirsts for freedom and totality, now creates
groups of free men welded together by the ideal and by the action. Whoever
comes into contact with these groups will cast off his status of lackey and
willfree himself from the idiot domination of others over him. Any ordinary
man who comes from the plough, the factory, the bench of the university or
from the bench of the academic will recognize the degradation of slavery. As
man uncovers his true personality, he will throw away all artificial ideas,
which go against the rights of his personality, the Master/Slave
relationship of modern society. As soon as man brings to the fore the pure
elements in his personality through which a new, free human community is
born, he will become an anarchist and revolutionary. This is how the ideal
of anarchism is assimilated and disseminated by men; the free man recognizes
its deep truth, its clarity, and its purity, its message of freedom and
creativity.

The idea of anarchism, the teaching of a renewed life for man as an
individual and as a social being, is therefore bound up with man's
self-awareness and his awareness of the suppurating sore of injustice in
modern society. Anarchism exists therefore only illegally or semi-legally,
never in total legality.

In the modern world, society does not live for itself but for the
preservation of the Master/Slave relationship, the State. One could go
further and say that society has completely de-personalized itself. In human
terms, it does not exist at all. It is widely believed however that the
State is Society. But is "Society" a group of men who live it up while
sitting on the shoulders of all humanity? Why is man as an individual or as
a mass numbering hundreds of millions nothing in comparison with this
slothful group of "political leaders"? These hyenas, rulers both of right
and left wing, are rightly upset with the idea of anarchism. The bourgeois
at least are frank about this. But state-socialists of all denominations,
including Bolsheviks, are busy swapping the names of bourgeois rule with
those of their own invention, while leaving its structure essentially
unchanged. They are therefore trying to salvage the Master/Slave
relationship with all its contradictions. And although they are aware that
these contradictions are totally irreconcilable with their professional
ideas, they nevertheless uphold them in order to forestall the putting into
practice of Anarchist Communism. In their programs, the state-socialistssaid
that man must be allowed to free himself "socially". But of man's spiritual
freedom, of his human freedom, no word was spoken. Instead, they are now
making sure that such a liberation of man outside their tutelage cannot be
carried through. "Liberation" under the management of any government or
political set-up - what's that got to do with freedom? The bourgeois, who
never applies himself to the task of making anything beautiful or useful,
says to the worker: "Once a slave, always a slave. We cannot reform social
life because we have got too much capital in industry and in agriculture.
Besides, modern life is pleasant for us; all the kings, presidents, and
their governments cater for our wishes and bow before us. The slaves are
their responsibility." Or he says: "The life of our modern society is full
of great promises!"

"No, no!" screams the bourgeois socialists and communists. "We disagree!!"
Then they rush to the workers, marshal them into parties, and call on them
to rebel as follows: "Drive out the bourgeois from their positions and hand
their power over to us. We will work for you. We will liberate you."

So the workers, whose hatred of government is even greater than their hatred
of parasites, rise up in revolution to destroy the machinery of power and
its representatives. But either because of clumsiness or naivete, they allow
socialism to come to power. This is how the communists got into power in
Russia. These communists are real dregs of mankind. They tear down and shoot
innocent people and hang liberty; they shoot men exactly as the bourgeois
did. They shoot men who think differently to them in order to subjugate all
to their power, in order to enslave him to the throne of government they
have just taken over. They hire guards for themselves and killers for
dealing with free men. Under the weight of the chains made by the new
"Workers' Republic" in Russia, man groans and sighs as he did under
bourgeois rule. Elsewhere, man is groaning under the yoke of the bourgeoisie
or under that of the bourgeois socialist. The hangmen, both old and new, are
strong. They have mastered the art of tactical suppression of opposition,
and man only flares up briefly to contest his rights before sinking down
again under the burden of authorityand despair. He drops hi hands as the
noose is thrown around his neck again, shutting his eyes like a slave before
the gleeful hangman.

>From these unfolding vistas of human misery and from personal misery, man
must forge convictions, call other men his brothers, and fight for freedom.
Man is only free if he is prepared to kill every hangman and every power
magnate if they do not wish to stop their shameful tasks. He is only free if
he does not put a prime on changing his government and is not led astrayby
the "Workers' Republic" of the Bolsheviks. He must vouch for the
establishment of a truly free society based on personal responsibility, the
only really free society. His pronouncement on the State must be one of
total destruction: "No. This must not be. To rebellion! Rise up, brothers,
against all government, destroy the power of the bourgeoisie and do not
allow the socialists and bolshevik government to come to life! Destroy all
authority and drive out its representatives!"

There are even moments when the authority of the socialists and communists
is worse than the bourgeois, for they tear down their own ideas and trample
on them. After fumbling about in secret for the keys to bourgeois
government, the communists became guilty and furtive; theydo not want the
masses to see what they are doing, so they lie and cheat and deceive. If the
masses notice this, they seethe with indignation. So the government falls
upon them in an orgy of irresponsibility and butchers them in the name of
"socialism" and "communism". The government has of course long since thrown
these ideas into the dustbin. At such moments the rule of the socialists and
Bolsheviks is more degraded than that of the bourgeoisie for it is even
unoriginal in its recourse to the mechanics of bourgeois oppression. While a
bourgeois government strings a revolutionary up on the gallows, socialist or
bolshevik-communist governments will creep up and strangle him in his sleep
or kill him by trickery. Both acts are depraved. But the socialists are more
depraved because of their methods.
Any political revolution in which the bourgeoisie, the socialists and
state-communists struggle with each other over political ascendancy while
dragging in the masses will show the traits outlined above, the most obvious
example being the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917. When the
working masses that made up Tsarist Russia felt themselves partially freed
from reaction, they began to work towards total freedom. They expressed this
wish by expropriating landlords and monasteries and by handing over their
lands to the people who wished to cultivate it with hired labor.

Sometimes factories, works, presses, and other businesses were taken over by
those who worked in them. Attempts were made to create liaisons between
towns and villages. And while they were engaged in this activity the people
were of course unaware that there were governments sitting about in Kiev,
Kharkov, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere. The people were in fact laying the
foundations for a new, free society that would throw out all parasites and
governments and the idiocy of power. This healthy activity was especially
noticeable in the Ural, in Siberia, and in the Ukraine. It was remarked upon
by the old as well as the new regimes in Petrograd, Moscow, Kiev, and
Tiflis. But the socialists as well as the Bolsheviks had (and still have) a
widely dispersed party membership and a well-distributed network of
professional killers. It must be added that, besides these professional
killers, they also hired people from our own ranks. With the help of these
people they managed to nip the people's freedom in the bud. And they did a
good job. The Spanish Inquisition would have been green with envy.

We now know the real truths behind government. To the Bolsheviks and
socialists we say: "Shame! Dishonour! You talked such a lot about the terror
of the bourgeoisie and you took the side of revolution with great zeal. But
now that you are in power you show yourself the same old fools, the same
lackeys of the bourgeoisie, and slaves of their methods. You have turned
yourselves into bourgeois." Looking at the experiences of bolshevik
communism during recent years, the bourgeois know perfectly well that this
particular brand of socialism can never manage without using their methods
or without hiring them in person. It knows that the exploitation and
suppression of the working majority is inherent in this system, that the
vicious life of sloth is not cast aside in socialism, but that it
merelymasquerades under another name before spreading and taking root again.

This is the Truth! You've only got to look at the bolshevik vandals and
their monopoly over the people's revolutionary conquests! Look at their
spies, their police, their laws, prisons, jailers, and their armies of
bailiffs. The "Red" Army is only the old army under a new name.

Liberalism, socialism, Bolshevism; they are three brothers who go their
different ways to grab power over man. This power is used to block man's
advance towards self-realization and independence.


To Rebellion!

This is the cry of the anarchist revolutionary to the exploited. Rebel,
destroy all government and see that it never takes root again. Power is used
by those who have never really lived by the work oftheir hands. Government
power will never let workers tread the road to freedom; it is the instrument
of the lazy who want to dominate others, and it does not matter if the power
is in the hand of the bourgeois, the socialists or the Bolsheviks, it is
degrading. There is no government without teeth, teeth to tear any man who
longs for a free and just life.

Brother; drive out power in yourself. Never let it fascinate you or your
brothers. A true collective life is not built with programs or with
governments but with the freedom of mankind, with its creativity and its
independence.
The freedom of any individual carries within it the seed of a free and
complete community without government, a free society that lives in organic
and decentralized totality, united in its pursuit of the great human goal:
Anarchist Communism!


2.


Anarchistic Communism is a great community in total harmony. It is formed
voluntarily by free individuals who form associations and federations
according to their needs. Anarchist Communism fights to secure man's freedom
and his right to boundless development; it fights against all the evils and
injustices that are inherent in governments.

The free, non-governed society aims to embellish life with its intellectual
and manual work. It will have as its resources all that nature gave man as
well as nature's own inexhaustible riches; it makes man drunk with the
beauty of the earth and exhilarated by his own, self-made freedom. Anarchist
Communism will let man develop his creative independence in all directions;
its adherents will be free and happy with life, guided by brotherly work and
reciprocity. They will need no prisons, hangmen, spies, or agents, which are
products of the bourgeoisie and socialists, for they will have no need ofthe
idiot robber and murderer that is the State. Prepare yourselves, brother, to
create this society! Prepare organizations and ideas! Remember that your
organizations must be safe from attack. The enemy of your freedom is the
state personified in five figures:
The property owner
The lover of war
The judge
The priest


Academics who distort the truth about man

These last make up "historical laws" and "judiciary norms", and scribble
slickly in order to get money; they are busy all the time trying to prove
the rightfulness of the first four's claims to power that degrades human
life.
The enemy is strong. For millennia he has spent his time accumulating
experience in robbery, violence, expropriation, and murder. He underwent an
inner crisis and is now busy changing his outward aspect, but he is only
doing this because his life has been threatened with the new, emerging
knowledge. This new knowledge is waking man from his long sleep, freeing him
from prejudices implanted by the five, giving him a weapon to fight for his
true society. This change in the outer appearance of our enemy can be seen
in reformism. It was evolved to combat the revolution in which he took part.
In the Russian Revolution, the five seemed to have vanished off the face of
the earth. .. but this was only appearance. In reality our enemy changed his
features momentarily and is now calling up new recruits to fight against us.
Bolshevik communism is especially revealing in this matter; but it will be a
long time before this doctrine will forget man's struggle for true freedom.

The only reliable method for waging a successful struggle against
enslavement is social revolution that engages the masses in a continual
struggle (evolution). When it first erupts, social revolution is
elemental.It flattens the path for its own organizations while smashing any
dam that is artificially set against it. These dams in fact only increase
its power. Anarchist revolutionaries are already working for this, and any
man who is aware of the burden of slavery on himself has a duty to aid the
anarchist; at the same time every man should feel responsible to the whole
of mankind when he struggles against the five of the State. Every man should
also remember that the social revolution will require appropriatemethods of
realization; that is especially true of the anarchist who is scouting ahead
along the road of freedom. During the destructive phase of the revolution,
while slavery is being abolished and freedom beginning to spread in an
elemental outburst, organization and steadfast methods are essential to
secure the gains. In this phase the revolution needs you most urgently. The
Russian Revolution, in which anarchists played a considerable role (which
they could not carry through because action was deniedthem), brought home to
us the truth that the masses who have torn themselves loose from their
chains had no desire to put on others of a different make. In their
revolutionary momentum, they sought immediately for free associations that
would only aid their efforts to build up a new community but which would
defend them against the enemy. If we look at this process closely, we come
to the conclusion that the best method to create new collective freedom is
the "Free Soviet". Proceeding from this conviction, the anarchist
revolutionary will call the enslaved to struggle for these free
associations. He will believe that social revolution will thus create
freedom while smashing slavery altogether. This belief must be cherished and
defended. The only people who can possibly provide the defense for this
belief are the masses themselves who have made the revolution and who equate
their lives with their principles. While the human masses create the
revolution they instinctively cast about for free associations and rely on
their inherent anarchism; they will uphold above all the Free Soviet. As the
masses make a revolution they are bound to come upon this themselves and the
anarchist must help them formulate this principle.

Economic problems in the free society will be resolved by the
producer-consumer co-operatives in which the Free Soviets will act as
coordinators and clarifiers. The nature of the Free Soviet during the social
revolution must be to consolidate the masses' position by urging them to
take their rightful inheritance (land, factories, works, mineral and coal
mines, shipping, forestry, etc.) into their own hands. While groups
according to interest or inclination are formed, the masses will build up an
entire social fabric, freely and independently.

The struggle along this road will demand great sacrifice, for it will be the
final effort of nearly free man. In this struggle there will be no
hesitation, no sentimentality. Life or Death!? - This question will stand
before every man who considers his rights and those of humanity to be a
better life. As the healthy instincts of man will have preponderance, he
will embark upon this road to life as victor and creator.

Organize yourselves, brothers, call every man to your ranks. Call him from
the factory, from the school; call the students and the learned. It may be
that nine out of ten academics will not come to you, or it may happen that
they will come in order to deceive you if they are servants of the State's
five. But the tenth man will come.He will be your friend and will help you
overcome the deceit of the others. Organize yourselves; call every man to
your ranks; call on all the governors to stop their stupidity and the
brutalizing of human life. If they do not desist, disarm the police,the army
and other organizations of the five's defense. Burn their laws and destroy
their prisons, kill the hangmen, the bane of mankind. Smash authority! Call
to your ranks the press-ganged army; there are many killers in the army who
are against you and who are bribed to kill you. But there are friends for
you even in the army. They will confound the mobs of murderers and will
hurry to your side.

After we have collected ourselves into a great, universal family, brothers,
we will go further in the fight against darkness. On to the universal human
ideal! We will live as brothers, enslaving no one. The brute force of the
enemy will be answered with the force by our revolutionary army. If our
enemies do not agree with our ideal, we reply by building our new life based
on individual responsibility. Only hardened criminals who belong to the five
will not wish to tread the road to a new life with fruitful activity. They
will try to fight us in order to regain their power. They must die.
Long live the ideal of universal human harmony, and man's fight towards it!
Long live the ideal of anarchist society!


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Seeing a bit how USSR communists could represent anarchists souding well at
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