"The authors [Tiqqun] correctly recognize the impossibility of developing any real autonomy to 'what is held in common' within capitalist society, yet the exhaustion of the summit-hopping, black bloc activist milieu makes it imperative for them to either find new practices in which to engage, or to stage a graceful retreat. Thus the 'TAZ,' the alternative, the commune, etc., are to be rethought, but with a critique of alternativism in mind: we must secede, yes, but this secession must also involve 'war.' Since such supposedly liberated places cannot be stabilized as outside of 'capitalism, civilization, empire, call it what you wish,' they are to be reconceived as part of the expansion and generalization of a broad insurrectionary struggle. Provided the struggle is successful, these alternatives will not turn out to have been impossible after all; their generalization is to be the condition of their possibility. It is this dynamic of generalization that is identified as one of 'communization' - communization as, more or less, the forming of communes in a process that doesn't stop until the problem of the alternative has been solved, since it no longer has to be an alternative. But all of this is without any clear notion of what is to be undone through such a dynamic. The complexity of actual social relations, and the real dynamic of the class relation, are dispatched with a showmanly flourish in favor of a clutch of vapid abstractions. Happy that the we of revolution does not need any real definition, all that is to be overcome is arrogated to the they - an entity that can remain equally abstract: an ill-defined generic nobodaddy [sic; nobody?] (capitalism, civilization, empire, etc) that is to be undone by - at the worst points of Call - the Authentic Ones who have forged 'intense' friendships, and who still really feel despite the badness of the world." - Endnotes, "What are we to do?"
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