Saturday, September 4, 2010

Entries in an anarchist's journal

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.

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