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Interview with anarchist comrade

Costantino Cavalleri

by

Conspiracin crata(Mexico)

act for freedom now

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This interview was published in Conspiracincrata:Publicacion de tendencia anarquista insurreccional,issue 15, March 2012, Mexico.

Translated from Italian byact for freedom now/B.pd/sysiphus

actforfree.nostate.net/

The Italian version is available on informa-azione.info.

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The project of the insurrectionalist anarchist intervention places theuse of weapons in the overall context of the struggle, in synchronywith and in support of any other aspect of the intervention. As I

have pointed out more than once in my answers to the earlier ques-tions.

To conclude, I think it is useful to highlight another aspect linked tothe insurrectional fact, which responds at least in part to thosewho consider the use of violence and weapons to be negative froman ideological point of view, as they prefer educational methods,propaganda, etc. but is also an aspect that is not thoroughly ac-

knowledged even by those who instead give absolute importance tothe destructive part of the attack on the class enemy.

The insurrectional phenomenon does not only imply the materialdestruction (premises, men, institutions, etc.) of the dominant sys-tem but also the liberating rupture from all the psychological mecha-nisms, stratified and crystallized, which have penetrated the mindsof masses of individuals who have inherited, at the genetic-cultural

level submission and adaptation to servitude as if this were some-thing spontaneous, belonging to the very nature of man. Such arupture expresses itself like a celebration and carnival, perhaps, likean ancestral moment of radical refusal of the roles imposed dailyalong the historical trajectory of peoples, representing everywherethe possible parody that the State-capital allows its subjects (likeother pseudo-liberatory moments, look at sport) a temporary safety

valve, useful for keeping them happily in the subordinate roles thatthey must fulful throughout the rest of the year.

From this point of view, in its brief duration, the insurrectional eventmanages to determine the rupture of the mental chains that wouldotherwise come about, and to a lesser extent, over a whole genera-tion.

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