Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed 34 (Fall 1992)

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2 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed Fall 1992
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Anarchy #34
Fall 1992
Press run: 5,500
ISSN 1044-1387
Essays Departments LC 88-13329
PUBLISHER
29 Separation Openers CAL. Press
BY RAOUL VANEIGEM 4 Inside Anarchy
5 Do Not Panic EDITORIAL COMMITIEE
Jason McQuinn
32 Postcards from Prison Toni Otter
TheS adT ruth
BY NICK 01SPOLOO
6 La Saint-Jean EDITORIAL ADVISORY GROUP
7 Insurgents Demolish War Satellites Claude B.
Avid Darkly
8 Water Troughs and Fires
E.B. Funck
9 The Day before Yuppification A Hacker
Shagbark Hickory
AlternatMievdei aR eview Emma Kollwitz
Noa
10 Alternative Press Review
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13 Ecstatic Reveries
14 In Search of the Primitive CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Freddie Baer, San Francisco, CA.
15 Laws of the Jungle Johann Humyn Being, San Francisco, CA.
16 Alternative Press Books · James Koehnline, Seattle, WA.
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22 Riot L.A. Feral Faun, Portland, OR.
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23 Slagging off the Left Green
Neal Keating, Albany, NY.
36 On Having One's Network Tad Kepley, Brooklyn, NY.
Research Seized 24 Dem-Con '92 in New York Michael William, Montreal, Quebec
John Zerzan, Eugene, OR.
BY DAVID SoNENSCHEIN
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40 David & Goliath A/Coil • ABC Athens • Max Anger •
Ace Backwords • Amanda Blackwood •
and Crime in America Breathe • Alan Bregman • Bureau of
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Fureby • Ann Howe • Liam Kellen • Bill
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Price • Piotr Ryniarczyk • Annie Sprinkle
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Spectacle-Commodity 26 The Greek Student Struggle do not necessarily reflect the views of
C.A.L., or those of the editorial & produc­
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BY THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL 59 Tad Planet: Fear of a Tad Planet Anticopyright-Anarchy maybe reprinted
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BY ANN HOWE 62 Community Perspectives: creators or previous publishers.
TV Resurrected! Anarclry isi ndexeidn t heAhernali ve Press
56 Postscript to Future 60 The Funck Reporl: A Mind is a Index (POB3 310B9a,l timoMrDe., 2 1218a)n.dis
parotf t heA narchist Media Network (@net).
Primitive: On the Terrible Thing to Waste C.AL. Presiss a membero f COSMEP, the
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Do Not Panic
THIS DISASTER IS COMPLETELY ROUTINE
We Are All Collateral Damage
We all know that in disaster the managing director reaches for the public relations team even as the safety budget is being
slashed. We all know the media is a circus fit only to distract us with fake outrage for the easily upset, pictures of the ritual slaughter
for the drama junkies and manufactured choices for the terminally bored, for us all.
Fuck RUblic inquiries. Fuck scapegoated employees. Safety costs, more than compensation (what compensation?), more than
we are worth. Profit is the bottom line, government is business by another name.
We may as well sit back and bet on when the next big disaster is due. Guarantee it won't be long.
It's not the lack of safety in transport and at work. It's not the annual death and injuries at work. It's not the ever mounting death
tolls from stress and pollution-cancer, heart disease, every major killer. It's not the deaths on the roads from the desperately tense
and the drunkenly desperate. It's not the chewed up planet that leaves us living in a vast slag heap. It's not that we treat each other
like business treats us, objects to be used and thrown away. It's not the huge hostile boredom that reduces life to a slow march
to death.
It's all this. It's that this is sold to us as our paradise. It's that we sell our lives everyday to build this world which is aimed like
a pistol at our hearts. That we daily build our own prison, our oh so modern hell, participate in this vast organized suicide.
Every factory a bullet, every oil tanker a time bomb, every TV ten thousand valium, every office a morgue. ..
Fuck Capitalist Organization - State/Private False Choices
Fuck Technology - Fuck Death
Fall 1992 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed 5
The Sad Truth
La Saint-Jean
By Michael William
art uninhibited rollicking party, part ugly least I intend to squeeze some pleasure out of sitting next to the metro. I go over and put a
chauvinist outburst, La Saint-Jean, it. "Nationalists anonymous?" one of them says tract on the ground among them and go back
P Quebec's national holiday on June 24, in disbelief as I hand her a tract. to the metro entrance. I get into a couple of
is a clashing experience. This year's La Someone is selling handmade pastel nation­ conversations about my tract with people
Saint-Jean was especially important for na­ alist t-shirts, which are displayed on a clothes­ coming out of the metro.
tionalists because it represented a major sym­ line. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people Suddenly I'm surrounded by most of the
bolic event on the road to a referendum the are flogging buttons, stickers, and flags. Times punks. "Who are you?" one of them asks. How
ruling Liberal Party is theoretically obliged to are tough to be sure, and you can't fault poor am I supposed to answer that in two sentenc­
hold in October. people for trying to make an extra buck; but es? I start to explain that I'm simply distribut­
This time I wanted to do something, however how visibly and easily nationalism becomes just ing my tract when one of them notices that I
minor, to counter La Saint-Jean. The current another commodity which is bought and sold. have a slight accent. Am I a 'bloke' he asks,
nationalist frenzy here (and in so many other I decide to give out tracts along the parade using one of the dialect's quainter anachro­
places) is depressing and frustrating, stupefy­ route and start along Sherbrooke toward Saint­ nisms. What difference does it make, I begin to
ingly stu1:1id. Those who, at this late date, re­ Denis. A group of French-speaking black peo­ say, but he cuts me off. It clearly makes a big
main abstractly enamoured of national libera­ ple of different ages comes along and I give difference to him. Several people are firing
tion struggles may well find it worthwhile to them a tract. Though officially billed as the holi­ questions at me. I'm off balance, unable to
come and check out what's happening in day of all Quebecers, the crowd is almost en­ reply to everyone at once. "What do you have
Quebec. A cold shower of real-existing national­ tirely white and Francophone. A fiftyish, smiling against Quebec?" What's my 'complaint'? Did­
ism, in all its pompous, mindless banality, does man points at my t-shirt, saying I'm in a 'pessi­ n't any of them read my tract?? They think I'm
wonders for dissipating illusions. Local anti­ mistic' mood. He's wearing the badge of the pro-Canada. "I'm not federalist," I clarify, "I don't
authoritarian anti-nationalists have been doing Societe Saint-Jean Baptiste, the nationalist want a state." However, I'm phrasing it awk­
texts and posters (and stickers will soon be organization which puts on the annual parade. wardly. They think I'm rejecting just a Quebec
available, I'm told), and I've been expressing We exchange a couple of sentences. He amica­ state. One of them is thrusting his face next to
my disgust with graffiti, tracts, and posters. bly but firmly refuses a tract. me, yelling. Things are definitely getting heavy
'
Attempting to be more direct and confronta­ On the corner of Saint-Denis, someor;ie is and Im outnumbered 15 to one. I yell that I
tional, I did a tract using a detourned alcoholics selling representations of phoney Quebecois don't want a Quebec state because I want to
anonymous (i.e. nationalists anonymous) motif, money. About a quarter of the people are abolish all states.
which I've given .out to several hundred' people wearing nationalist t-shirts. A half-dozen models "Oh, you're an anarchist." 'Yes!' Cheers and
wearing t-shirts or sporting other nationalist predominate, but the variations are seemingly clapping erupt, breaking the tension. That's
paraphernalia (of which there is no lack here­ infinite. A truck with a sound system is exhort­ what anarchy means, abolishing the state, I
abouts). ing people to wave their flags in unison. "I hate shout, exasperated. Several people ask for a
This article is an attempt to give an idea of flags," I yell, and launch into a loud anti-flag copy of the tract. Everything is now hunky-dory.
the atmosphere in Quebec rather than an rant, as I head up Saint-Denis. People stare at At least until they read the tract and discover
analysis of the nationalist situation or of nation­ me like I'm the creature from the Black Lagoon. that my brand of anarchy is not the anarcho­
alism more generally. Unfortunately, no one has Politely asking me for a tract, a woman taps nationalism most of them seem to favour. I
done a local in-depth text from an anti-national­ me on the shoulder. Five seconds later, behind move away from the crowd, followed by a
ist viewpoint. However, a number of texts, me, she methodically begins to rip it into small youth who apologizes for his friends. I let him
tracts, and posters are available which I'd be pieces. I turn back, saying that, since she didn't know what I think of their cop-like behaviour.
glad to send to anyone who's interested (write even finish the first paragraph, she certainly He complains that he didn't get a tract, and I
to: Michael, c/o Demolition Derby, C.P. 1554 doesn't have much of an interest in alternative give him one.
Succ. 'B', Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 3L2). viewpoints. "Clear out," she informs me, eyeing Suddenly I feel exhausted and sit down on
With a felt pen I mark "Referendum bidon: me lobster-like. "Get off the street." "Some Mount-Royal Street. A couple of the youths
ABSTENTION" (worthless or half-assed referen­ country you intend to create-where you can't from the group cut across the street and one of
dum: abstention) on an old t-shirt. Provocative even give out tracts," I tell her, and launch into them makes hostile comments when he sees
for a day like this but not outrageous enough, a diatribe. Like a stuck record, she keeps me. With comrades like this, who needs ene­
I expect, for someone to crack a bottle over my ordering me to get out. mies?
head before I have a chance to defend myself. I approach a group of youths with flags on The parade is finally coming, so I go over to
I'm nervous about giving out my tract, with its the corner. 'Leninist?' one of them asks, mo­ check it out. Cheesy modernist floats, peopl!!
burning Canadian and Quebecois flags and tioning to my tract. 'No,' I groan. 'Extremist?' he dressed in 18th-century military uniforms, and
combination of humour, insult, and analysis. says. 'Right.' I start to walk away after handing so forth. Following the parade, filling the street,
Giving it out later during the concert, when him a tract. "Come back, I want to talk to you." comes the traditional blocks-long detachment
folks are really tanked up, would be fairly Usually I would be glad to. But I'm still wound of flag-wavers and nationalist slogan-shouters.
suicidal. up from the last confrontation and prefer to Standing close to the curb, I distribute tracts as
I cross Saint-Denis, which is part of the continue on. the crowd surges by. The raw odour of national­
parade's trajectory. I go up to a couple of So many people are now lining the streets ism is overwhelming and nauseating. A lot of
young, clean-cut types sitting on the curb under that it takes five minutes to funnel through people who notice my t-shirt come over and the
a nationalist banner. Before I can hand out a when I get to the corner. I'm not going to be tracts disappear quickly. Out of tracts, I get off
tract, one of them says, "Oh, no, you Anglos able to continue much further, so I cut over a the street as the raggedy remnants of the
can't abstain." Why does he assume I'm Anglo­ couple of blocks to a metro (subway) entrance, crowd pass by. Someone carrying an obelisk­
phone? He sounds genuinely, profoundly where people are exiting, heading for the like object proclaiming "Sovereignty '92" comes
disappointed that anyone would question the parade. On the corner a couple of people are by. A cheer breaks out from people lining the
legitimacy of the referendum farce. I hand him selling Rebel/es, a self-described libertarian streets.
a tract. socialist bimonthly whose primary plank is Uh huh.
Two people with flags are coming in the creating a Quebec state. Anarcho-statism of Numb, I head toward my apartment a few
opposite direction, as I continue on to the one type or another (libertarian municipalist blocks away in the Portuguese neighbourhood.
starting point. "Nationalists anonymous," I electoralists, Khaddafy supporters, various As soon as I distance myself from the crowd,
intone in a funereal voice. A smile bubbles up, types of national liberation supporters) may the atmosphere changes entirely. Most of the
adding a discordant note. If I have to put up well be the majority tendency hereabouts. stores are open and no one seems to be cele­
with this omnipresent nationalist miserablism at A group of about 15 punkish youths are brating. Just another day.
6 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed Fall 1992
The Sad Truth
Insu rgents Demolish War Satel lites
Harriet Tubman-Sarah Conner Brigade Communique
SEAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA: and to make possible a catastrophic nuclear gunships to their targets on search-and-capture
0
n the night of May 11, 1992, members first strike against any country that challenges or search-and-destroy missions against resis­
of the Harriet Tubman-Sarah Conner worldwide US corporate-military dominance. tance fighters, 'subversive' or undocumented
Brigade, a nonviolent resistance net­ Navstar GPS ("Navigation System Time and civilian refugees, and independent indigenous
work, demolished crucial parts of the US Ranging, Global Positioning System") is a far communities, in their rainforest/mountain
government's Navstar GPS military satellite reaching "force multiplier" program, halfway to sanctuaries or urban slum back alleys, day or
system, an instrument of global terror and full deployment as of May 1992. It has been night anywhere on the planet-especially in the
doomsday madness designed to crush all designed to: Third World, from Kurdestan to Manila, from
uprisings against corporate control of the Earth 1) guide military or police assault teams and Guatemala to Los Angeles; and
2) provide the Pentagon's nuclear attack mis­
siles with the unprecedented accuracy required
only to start and win World War Ill through a
devastating surprise attack on the nuclear
deterrent forces of any possible rival, especially
a resurgent Russian or Eurasian alliance. ,
Navstar GPS also offers the ruling corporate­
military-police-state empire and ability to survey
and map every remote wilderness, desert,
rainforest, and indigenous nation on Earth, for
control and exploitation of their 'resources'. The
Pentagon and US-based multinational corpo­
rate syndicate plan to ring the Earth with 24
Navstar GPS satellites, carrying radioactive
cesium and rubidium atomic clocks, interfaced
with their ever more sophisticated surveillance
devices continuously scanning every inch of
ground and water: to map and control all
places; to track down, target, terrorize and
destroy any who resist the corporate world
order.
Navstar GPS provides extremely precise data
on the exact position, altitude, and velocity of
any military, police, intelligence or high-level
corporate user, with less exact positioning
offered as a 'spin-off' benefit to the civilian
commercial sector. Like the 'civilian' use of l.G.
Farben company's Zyclon-B gas for rodent con­
trol, as well as in the Nazi extermination camps,
Rockwell International corporation touts the
'civilian' uses of GPS to find a handful of lost
fishing boats or improve earthquake prediction
-with a system designed as the targeting
mechanism of high-tech global terror.
The partially completed system is already in
use: it guides covert military-CIA hit squads
against rebellious peasants in Latin America,
and hones doomsday weapons toward first
strike accuracy levels in ongoing nuclear mis­
sile flight tests. In the Gulf War, Navstar was not
crucial to "finding lost soldiers in the desert"
despite the propaganda claims; it did not get
rid of the CIA's wayward fascist client Saddam
Hussein, nor did it protect the Shiite and Kurd­
ish rebels from being massacred ,with Sad­
dam's NATO-US-Russian weaponry; but it did
insure almost total destruction of the Iraqi
people's electric power grid and civilian infra­
structure through devastatingly accurate preci­
sion bombing.
But the remaining unlaunched satellites are
essential for the full surveillance, counterinsur­
gency and nuclear first strike capability of the
Navstar GPS system. In fact the capability of
the system goes up on an exponential curve as
the satellites are deployed, so the last 50% or
30% or 10% of the system provides more than
that percentage of the capability. The action of
the Harriet Tubman-Sarah Conner Brigade
La Saint-Jean marchers in Montreal, Quebec. Continued on page 63. ..
Fall 1992 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed 7
The Sad Truth
Water troughs and fires:
On beating back the potentially violent intent of Rodney King and other darknesses
By Liam Kellen
e went to California on Wednesday, changed our black regalia for more pig-proof mobile car phones to report protesters. Police
April 30 for the postmodernist rendez­ attire. The pigs tipped their helmets, occasion­ would then rush to the site .and make the
Wvous, the "Persons, Passions, Powers" ally queried us. They caught few trashers of the arrest. KGO, like the San Francisco mayor,
Interdisciplinary Conference. On Thursday, April chain stores, but they freely arrested for curfew repeatedly chastised whites for joining these
30 it was hard to hear the words of some 200 violation anyone with dark skin, black bandan­ demonstrations since, "It's not their issue­
papers being delivered on deconstruction and nas, Telegraph Avenue attire""ihat is any individ­ they're just troublemakers."
subversion, on Laclau and disruptions/renewals ual or small group they could catch. Even once As I was leaving California on Sunday, KGO
of Marxism, on plurification of gender, interrup­ the main group was fractured, however, when­ presented one of the few interviews with black
tions in historicist politics, etc. The seminars ever the pigs saw a larger group of protestors teenagers I heard on TV or radio. The interview­
were happening on the 4th and 5th floor of the they tended to run away. er began the clip with ·a disclaimer narrative
Berkeley ASUC student center above Sproul "My nephew had a punk bar in Pittsburgh including this statement: "No one would advo­
Plaza. Outside an unruly crowd of perhaps but was closed down by the water trough cate the breaking of glass or looting. So how
2,000 was making a big fuss. Finally, we closed ordinance," my friend commented. "The police can this happen?" The Oakland high school
the windows. We sweated profusely, but were there use several old ordinances to harass students interviewed soon confessed that
able to better concentrate on the dangers of alternative businesses that they don't like. The rioting was.fun, although they shouldn't do it,
ideological reification and the essences of true water trough law has been on the books since and that, given the chance, they would loot.
radicalism and heterotemporal spontaneity. 1840 and requires any public establishment to The supplemental message is that the perso­
That night city fathers declared a "voluntary maintain a water trough for horses to drink nae reserved for black teenagers is 'no-one'.
curfew." KGO and other Bay Area radio stations from. It and other such ordinances are selec­ Sunday night we were glad to be back in
also called this a "selective curfew." The big tively evoked. Being shut down repeatedly and Eugene. We like to think Eugene is less of a
march in Berkeley started despite the curfew. paying several stiff fines eventually beat my police state than California. Perhaps it is. On
The march was vastly multi-racial, multi-class, nephew." Monday, however, I got a disturbing phone call
and multi-age group. People in Berkeley were The problem at hand for the consumer from my very mild mannered but semi-home­
pissed and militant, from small white kids to authorities in Berkeley and San Francisco was less friend Jim. Leaving a Salsa music concert
Hispanic senior citizens. Until 8PM, the pigs ran how to put water on public outrage and yet at Eugene's WOW Hall Community Center on
and hid whenever the marchers turned toward provide for public commerce, tourists, etc. Friday night, traveling by bicycle, he had been
them. As "hide and seek" actions developed Looting commodities was taboo. But an actual arrested. When he called me he had just
starting at dusk, the pigs responded by arbi­ curfew was also taboo since it would burn emerged from 3 full days in the Lane County
trarily arresting several hundred persons. The merchants trying to sell these same commodi­ Jail. The charge: cheating on a stop light and
'thick' blue line would look at groups of persons ties. Politically, a curfew would provide the not having a light on his bicycle. On Monday
or individuals and judge their "violent intent." If disruption of business as usual, " ... just what the he pleaded "no contest" in order to be released.
they looked like potential troublemakers (a troublemakers want." He is supposed to also pay a $79 fine on top of
category now big enough to grip both the By Friday, the solution practiced in both the jail time. "Piss on that!" says Jim. "I'm
much valorized "legitimate peaceful demon­ cities was to let the cops decide who's intent getting out of Eugene as soon as I can. I'm
strator'' and its darker binary, the "lawless was "social-political" in motive and who's intent going back to Ohio where at least the cops
terrorist rioter") they were arrested. However, was 'private' and legitimate. -KGO, the station, don't harass you everyday."
being a white and generally 40s-ish cadre, we "where news and traffic is yours every ten
evaded arrest. We had early in the day ex- minutes," encouraged citizens to call in on
Collage by Johann Humyn Being (San Francisco, CA.).
8 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed Fall 1992
The Sad Truth
The Day Before Yuppification
A report from Poland By Piotr Rymarczyk
he eighties in the West was a period of instant growth in the English desire for a freer street stalls in 15 weather; maybe in the future
°
domination by right politics, as symbol­ way of life. they will become a symbol of the present
T
ized by Ronald Reagan and Margaret The highly developed capitalist society generation of youth and of its naive belief in
Thatcher. When the Communist regimes had seems to be stable. People, who on the one propaganda's lies. Also, about the removal of
fallen, trends dominating in the West also came hand are threatened by poverty, are at the young peddlers from the center of the city by
to Eastern Europe. The same happened in same time seduced by a vision of wealth. They police-I've heard that it happened because city
Poland. The time of the reign of Communist theoretically should be obedient and lacking authorities were bribed by rich firms-and this is
ideology is over, but it was immediately re­ any will for self-determination. Fortunately, they symbolic. It's this way because only the elites,
placed by a "free market" ideology of competi­ sometimes still make trouble. Workers defend not the ordinary person, will profit from the
tion and material success. Polish society-till not themselves against being pushed into the restoration of capitalism. Another group which
long ago anyway-had been absorbing this "new space of poverty,
faith" with childlike confidence and a naive students protest
belief that this mythical capitalism would solve against changing
all problems. The ruling elite were more realis­ their universities
tic in their opinions, but the affirmation of into factories
capitalism was quite convenient for them as it which produce
strengthened their economic and political technical staff for
masterhood. capitalistcorpora­
Highly developed capitalistic countries­ tions. In such
which presently are the ideal for the majority of situations the
Poles -are undoubtedly societies of economic police appear on
well-being (which they owe in part to the exploi­ the stage-it hap­
tation of underdeveloped countries), but it's pened in England
difficult to say that they are 'free' societies. The in 1984 and in
graciously reigning free market ideology no­ France in 1987.
tions of freedom and individualism are obsti­ The culture of
nately linked with two other conceptions-of modern capital­
competition and of 'success'. But, in fact, it's ism seemingly is
actually an attempt to couple contradictions a pluralistic com­
because competition is possible only in a modity culture.
uniform society, and in a society which is Seemingly it
hierarchical (as the possibility of promotion is offers the people
necessary for this competition). Contemporary a multitude of
capitalist society is just like this. lifestyles and of
"Free enterprise," now so enthusiastically systems of moral valuation. But in fact all of will profit from the return of capitalism will be
praised virtually belongs to the past. One them are only modes, fashions generated by the Polish yuppies, a group which will come
hundred years ago, a capitalist factory owner the system. Their multitude and variability serve into being as a result of the transformation of
was free in the sense that he could freely to transform their receivers into "elastic con­ the present-day intelligentsia into the system's
exercise control over his factory, although, of formists" and, in this way, these people are personnel, specialized in manipulating people
course, his 'freedom' meant the enslavement of accommodated in a highly developed techno­ and nature. On the other hand, the majority of
the workers. But modern capitalism isn't the economic system which is also characterized workers and a certain part of the intelligentsia
capitalism of individual entrepreneurs anymore. by its multitude and variability of roles. At the won't be transformed and will be fated to live in
It's a system of gigantic, bureaucratized corpo­ same time, these ideas, lifestyles and values poverty.
rations closely linked to the state apparatus. functioning in modern capitalist culture are It's doubtful whether such a situation will
Let's take a look at the social structure of the deprived of meaning. They don't serve to unite awaken any type of revolutionary aspirations in
corporate state at the beginning of the '90s. people by their existence; they are merely those people anytime in the near future-des­
There's a ruling elite on the top. Then there is trinkets and other determining social status titution, rather, generates fascist tendencies.
a new middle class one cut below: yuppies, articles of consumption-like cars or summer The poor will support "strong men" promising
specialists, technocrats-the hired servants of homes. This is so because capitalist society-­ that they will "make order" (we've already seen
the megamachine. The yuppies as a middle like all authoritarian societies-reifies everything: this situation during Walesa's presidential
class traditionally perform pattern-giving func­ people, nature, ideas, feelings. campaign), but each of their subsequent choic­
tions in the system-the lower class follows their I criticize consumerist society but I, of es will bring them disappointment because
lifestyle, turning the wheels of capitalist econo­ course, see that it's easier to build enclaves of those whom they'll give power, of course, won't
my while striving to buy the same consumer autonomy in conditions of economic well-being. be interested in liquidating the privileges of the
goods. But together with production growth, Counter-cultural and alternative movements ruling elite.
grows the middle class's standard of living, so have developed in the rich-not the poor-coun­ Of course, after some time the illusions will
a certain distance between the classes will tries. Unfortunately, wealth doesn't threaten disappear. The workers will comprehend that
never disappear and the only effects will be an Poland because it will be one of many coun­ supporting the leaders instead of their own
increasing amount of senseless goods and a tries of subjugated capitalism, submitted to organizations will lead nowhere. Students will
devastation of the natural environment. On the economic exploitation by Western corporations. find out that economic well-being-which the
other hand, for people reluctant to take part in We shall have a Western commodity culture system will offer to some-is connected to the
the rat race of the rightist elites of the '80s, a and a social structure similar to the Western necessity of foregoing freedom and taking part
kind of social hell was created-an artificially one, but we won't have the wealth. In Poland, in a humiliating ra! race. This disillusionment
generated space of poverty, which is the place unlike the West, wealth-not poverty-will be an will undoubtedly cause protest, but its forms,
for people rejecting the rules of competitive exceptional thing. Nowadays propaganda extent and consequences are difficult to fore­
society. For example, in England, under Thatch­ maintains that "everyone can win." This winter see.
er's government, the number of unemployed I saw, in the center of Warsaw, crowds of young This essay originally appeared in Rewolla (Piotr
doubled and it probably wasn't a result of an men standing with self-abnegation behind their Sa!wowski, 11!. Mieszka I ./8, 05-090 Ras:zyn, Poland).
Fall 1992 Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed 9
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