Stuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it
You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be ignored, reshaped, or abolished. You see your environment as something that you’re free to improve and beautify. You see items on shelves as common property which is unjustly hoarded and guarded. You see cops as violent oppressors upholding the unfair demands of the ruling class - but you also see them as human, able to be avoided, fooled, and fought
Practice illegalism daily to see past the smoke and mirrors that make it look like the way things are is the way they must be. A better world is possible
Disobedience is a muscle that requires exercise. If you envision yoursef a resistance fighting and think you’ll start breaking the law once it becomes absolutely necessary, you will not have the skills, the experience, the realism, connections or the courage once the time comes.
The revolution isn’t an event to happen somewhere, someday, somehow.
It is happening everywhere, all the time, and in all of these different ways that each person has access to.
“You are what you do repeatedly,” and what you do now, immediately, prepares you for what you’ll do next.
James C Scott called in anarchist calisthenics. You ave to practise the skill and the fitness of doing things for the collective. Otherwise when the real urgency strikes it’s like someone just asked you to win a game for us in hockey and you’ve never in your life even skated on ice. And not only that, it will feel repulsive whenever someone asks you if you’d like to play hockey with them.
Working for the community should not feel like a repulsive idea that’ll only embarrass you.




















