So I’m thinking about this whole political change issue. Some people were looking at the riots that took place on Wednesday as something of a resistance, people standing up and fighting back against their evil oppressors. Now I’m all for standing up again scumbag oppressors, but I saw a bunch of pissed of young people letting out their anger, no greater agenda then that, just a small space in time that happened to be perfect for them to let it all out.
In many ways it did feel revolutionary but in many others it felt fucking stupid. The moron who threw the fire extinguisher off the roof, people going just for a fight with the police and those determined to throw rocks and light fires whether or not it hurt their fellow human beings. What the whole event showed was potential; that when pushed, people can push back.
So the whole thing was pretty destructive and yeah it was cool to see “fuck you tory scum” and “Anarchy” spray painted across the walls of Tory Party HQ. But on the whole I don’t think this type of action is the way forward and I speak now from a “conspiracy theorist, we’re in desperate need of revolutionary change” point of view.
Back to this thought I had. Instead of this conventional notion of revolution and change being mass riots and take over perhaps we need something else. Perhaps that method is outdated and, to quote Bill Hicks, “we need to evolve the idea”. Here’s the thought and yes it may sound bizarre. Instead of complete violence and destruction to create revolution and overthrow the system we need a party and not the political kind.
We need the peaceful take over and occupation of buildings like Millbank tower, but instead of destroying them completely we turn them into party central. We dance, we sing, we shout, we fill the place with good vibes. We show how fearless we are by skanking it out to some righteous ska in the face of the police and if they bring it down with force then they look even worse because there is no violent opposition to blame. Besides as it’s been said many a time, if there’s a lot more of us then there are of them we will succeed.
It’s strange because I don’t even know if I support the idea of revolution. I know I support the true philosophical and political view of Anarchism. In truth though I don’t know where a revolution would leave us. Whether we would graciously fall into an anarchistic type of society (or lack thereof); or whether we’d be left with nothing but chaos and for those who don’t know, there is a massive difference between Anarchism and chaos. If there was a revolution would I support it? I have no idea.
I guess with this I just wanted to say that there might be other forms of revolt other then the classical perception of revolution. Imagine just on the off chance we tried this, we revolted with a party we occupied a building and just filled it with love and positive energy, a combination of direct action and spiritual projection, it could be magnificent. It could fall flat on it’s arse and fail completely. You know what though? If it failed, well shit at least we would of had one hell of a good time.
Finishing with a quote as I so often do.
“A revolution without dancing, is a revolution not worth having” – V (V for Vendetta)
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