The Coming Insurrection (book)

[Kevin K]

I'm curious as to how many people might be aware of this book considering how many people live outside the US (where this book is not in print yet).

From what little I have read about it, the authors are anonymous though the French government arrested nine individuals it accused of being the writers and it advocates revolution and not the peacefull type.

Have you heard of this? Anyone read this?

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

sounds like some commie shit. if you want a good revolution book then read the turner diaries.

[Kevin K]

sounds like some commie shit. if you want a good revolution book then read the turner diaries.

Thanks for the insight but I'm not looking for a how-to but heard mention of it on a radio program and it's been linked to the riots in France and Greece.

[Knucklehead]

a quick google led to this.
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/t...-insurrection/

I didn't read it, doesn't interest me.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

TD isn't a how-to, it's a story like any other work of fiction.

here are reviews for TCI.

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Insurre.../dp/1584350806

"The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life."


haha i bet neo loves this book.

[Elk]

TD isn't a how-to, it's a story like any other work of fiction.

here are reviews for TCI.

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Insurre.../dp/1584350806

"The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life."


haha i bet Charlie Hustles wrote this book.

[Kevin K]

TD isn't a how-to, it's a story like any other work of fiction.

here are reviews for TCI.

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Insurre.../dp/1584350806

"The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life."


haha i bet Charlie Hustles wrote this book.

I'm not hating on Charlie but when I first heard about the book, the first name that popped into my head was his.

[Elk]

I skimmed the book/link. It reads like a college paper written by a first year philosophy major that is very angry at trendy people. It gives all sorts of ideas about changing the entire world structure, but it's obvious the person doesn't understand how any of these things work. Their idea is to destroy everything and then somehow people will be liberated and free and happy or something.

Here are the titles of some segments towards the end:

Expect nothing from organizations. Beware of all existing social milieus, and above all, don’t become one.

Form communes

Get organized in order to no longer have to work

Plunder, cultivate, fabricate

Create territories. Multiply zones of opacity

Remove all obstacles, one by one (they mean destroying forms of communication, job strikes, killing cops, ruining public transit, etc.)

Flee visibility. Turn anonymity into an offensive position (become a chicken-shit asshole and hide while fucking things up. Wearing a mask)

Take up arms. Do everything possible to make their use unnecessary. Against the army, the only victory is political. (Walk around in public with a big gun slinged over your shoulder, just to scare everyone)

And many, many more!


If you just read the bottom 1/6 of that link it's easy to see why they're getting arrested.

[Elk]

The final paragraph sums up their entire idea of a good life:



In the subway, there’s no longer any trace of the screen of embarrassment that normally impedes the gestures of the passengers. Strangers make conversation without making passes. A band of comrades conferring on a street corner. Much larger assemblies on the boulevards, absorbed in discussions.
Surprise attacks mounted in city after city, day after day. A new military barracks has been sacked and burned to the ground. The evicted residents of a building have stopped negotiating with the mayor’s office; they settle in. A company manager is inspired to blow away a handful of his colleagues in the middle of a meeting. There’s been a leak of files containing the personal addresses of all the cops, together with those of prison officials, causing an unprecedented wave of sudden relocations.
We carry our surplus goods into the old village bar and grocery store, and take what we lack. Some of us stay long enough to discuss the general situation and figure out the hardware we need for the machine shop. The radio keeps the insurgents informed of the retreat of the government forces. A rocket has just breached a wall of the Clairvaux prison. Impossible to say if it has been months or years since the “events” began. And the prime minister seems very alone in his appeals for calm.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

hahaha