An Appealing Pro-Revolutionary Milieu

No.1 : Our first task is to relax. Then, we can begin our second task: dismantling the regime of urgency. Urgency destroys whatever space exists for pro-revolutionary ideas to be received and is bad for our blood pressure. There is always a war. There is always crisis. Revolution is always the only solution. Slow down. This has been the case for several centuries.

No.2 : The vaunted historical perspective of pro-revolutionaries has never prevented them from being perpetually too early or too late. The current crisis is not driven directly by class struggle but by an internal partial collapse in the productive circuits for extracting value. Agency is still absent.

No.3 : It’s said that the Great Wall of China was built on brown rice and fermented cabbage, while the revolution will be built on the fermented blood of pro-revolutionaries. If the working class does not drink our wine, it is because we have not made enough. This is the logic of organization.

No. 4 : Common discussions, common meetings, common statements and interventions putting forward the same positions is a game of putting all our eggs in the same basket.

No. 5 : Our third task is cutting holes in baskets. We can begin with our own, naturally, then move on to others.

No. 6 : All pro-revolutionary activity ought to be defined above all by restraint. Restraint, first of all, because none of us know any more about communism and revolution than anyone else. Restraint, second of all, because every victory of a pro-revolutionary organization has meant defeat for the working class in its task of destroying itself. Restraint, finally, because this task is apparent only to us.

This is a short response to a hymnal recently passed around the congregation by Internationalist Perspectives.