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on and is now subsuming the traditional working class into the post-
industrial consumer class, is not just questionable, it is bizarre. They are
all simply stages in the grinding progress of the machine and we would
do well to abandon all of these chimeras. This is not to deny that a class
struggle has always and continues to be fought, but I prefer the term
 social war to  working class struggle largely because it includes more
individuals and their choices, including those who consider themselves
traditionally working class. Class as a concept and as a social binder has
become increasingly muddy over the years. People can be more crudely
divided  if we must  into the rich and the poor, the included and the
excluded, the critical and the uncritical regarding the State and
civilisation.
To be denied individual autonomy, recognition and relationships causes
alienation and disempowerment. The authority of a ghostly mass over
the individual does nothing except assist the project of the State and
capitalism by agreeing that the individual human being is nothing more
than an economic unit or a vast and faceless aggregation of economic
units. Is this really how we wish to define human beings and do
anarchists really think that such a perspective is liberating? To negate the
role of individual action in favour of a vague conception of the  class-
struggle of yesteryear is a dangerous fiction. Certainly, since it is also
the project of the State to destroy the volition and value of the individual;
it cannot be called revolutionary, except in the autocratic uber-political
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sense of being ruled by statist apparatus  none of which desire empow-
ered individuals or like-minded groups of individuals who want
freedom. It is not the role of anarchists to replace one tyranny, be it
 democratic , monarchist, collectivist or any other kind of rule, with
another.
What is this  issuing of statements condemning the acts and opinions of
others who consider themselves anarchists? It is to play the political
game of  good anarchist and  bad anarchist for the media and the
repressive machine of the police. It is to undermine the very meaning of
the term  anarchy ; a complicated and shifting web of principles, praxis
and relationship with the goal of liberation which is not a singular state
of being, no more than it is a State.
Moreover, the fact that the Federation feels the need to make statements
against acts of other anarchists must surely show them that their project
is doomed. At the end of the day, I say to the Anarchist Federation and
their fellow travellers: I do not agree with you, I do not desire the world
you envision. I say I am not alone in finding your statements and
perspectives antithetical to my own rebellion and my personal concept of
liberation which is based on my understanding and experience of State
oppression. And since your project depends on the absolute agreement
of the mass of which I am a part, and since it appears from the debates
and statements of the Federation that what is envisioned is a mass
anarchist society, I declare that I want freedom not only from the State
but from Society and you. I ask then: what are you going to do about
me?
I began this article by essentially wishing to encourage those of us who
call ourselves anarchists to cease mutual condemnation and to assert that
actually not one of us has the  answer . However, I end by sensing that
some of  us know so little of what it means to be liberated in heart,
thought and action, and so little of what class solidarity and struggle
really means, that I can only imagine an anarchist society such as
appears to be the aim of the Anarchist Federation, would be as fraught
with repressions and various prisons as this one. That is, unless those
who would impose their faceless societies on the rest of us realise their
futility.
Venona Q.
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Fragment: Violence
This fragment is simply a meandering series of thoughts, the results of a
notepad and a rainy afternoon, rather than a  manifesto or the kind of dry
political statement that it is in response to.
I.  By having carried out dozens of attacks against targets of the system,
with especially destructive material results, we were and will always be
precise. We aim specifically against the institutions and the officers of the
system, giving special attention to not injure someone who is not a target
to us. CCF
Violence is neither good nor bad.
It is the State s basis for it s domination and consent. Any one who
breaks this relationship is usually deemed criminal and/or insane.
Any acts used in this transgression are usually deemed  unlawful
or further,  terrorism .
II.  There are no innocents. We all make part of the social machine of
Power. The question is whether we are oil or sand in its gears. Therefore,
we reject the notion of the apparent innocence of society. Silence is never
innocent. We hate both the hand that holds the whip and the back which
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