These are entries scribbled in the journal of the anarchist character I am playing in SS ELISABETH:
Whoever lays his hand on me
to govern me is a usurper
and a tyrant, and
I declare him my enemy!
Anarchy is ORDER!
To be GOVERNED is
to be watched, inspected, spied upon,
directed, law-driven, numbered,
regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated,
preached at, controlled, checked,
estimated, valued, censured,
commanded by creatures who
have neither the right nor
the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be GOVERNED is
to be at every operation,
at every transaction noted, registered,
counted, taxed, stamped, measured, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility,
and in the name of the general interest,
to be placed under contribution,
drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized,
extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed,
then, at the slightest resistence,
the first word of complaint,
to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed,
hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned,
judged, condemned, shot,
deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed,
and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
That is government; that is its justice;
that is its morality.
Property is theft!
destroy property!
take away task of production from proprietors
give to worker’s association
Let property wither away!
Marx infected us with Hegel
thought only of revolution
You must have a god, a religion, a dictatorship, a censorship, a hierarchy, distinctives and ranks.
For my part,
I deny your god,
your authority,
your sovereignty,
your judicial State,
and all your representative mystifications.
Government is
an association of men
who do violence to the rest of us!
They have made
a revolution without ideas.
Their movement is being drowned
under waves of argument.
There are no ideas in their heads.
There is anxiety but
the muddle is now inextricable.
They are a mob of lawyers and writers
each more ignorant than the others,
who squabble for power.
No place for me in all that.
Stupidity upon stupidity.
Governments are by their very nature incapable of revolution
– immobilist, conservative,
refractory to initiative,
counter-revolutionary.
