This is the first issue of the bilingual anarchist paper Antisistema, which will be published irregularly. The paper gives space for anarchist analyses, discussions and documentations of attacks on structures of domination.
From now on we will upload the PDFs of the paper in german and english and want to encourage decentralized printing, distribution and discussion.

Contact: anti-sistema at riseup.net
Blog: antisistema.blackblogs.org

Index:
– Editorial
– For more cheerful daring
– For a determined struggle against the industrial destruction of the earth!
– Combining the question of social revolution with the question of ecology
– Defence is not the best attack
– Words are followed by actions

Editorial:

The (un-)consciousness of the individual and his or her more or less voluntary participation in society is the engine of the same. The innumerable questions and doubts one asks oneself in the course of life can be overwhelming, and it is difficult to imagine detaching oneself from the prevailing reason. The ideology of the citizen prevents any unleashing of freedom. Moving away from the prescribed ways of authoritarian society can be a matter of one‘s own will – but is also always conditioned by external factors such as the individual‘s experience of being exploited, regimented and beaten on his own skin. Rebellion against any authority and humiliation may appear to be a logical conclusion in thought and everywhere – but it is usually not. For every hierarchical system is interwoven with an ideological core. Our alleged high culture should be the apex of economic, social, cultural, political and even ecological development. In practice, however, it seems much more likely to mean the destruction of all life on this planet. Nothing is more responsible for the destruction of the earth than industrial capitalism, its ideology of progress and a humanity obsessed with progress in all its complexity, with all its interwoven needs, desires and illusions. Many of these dreams are now finally to be realised through the doctrine of technology and science. But on the way to dubious „perfection“ it will leave a trail of long-term devastation. Nuclear waste, microplastics, asbestos, cancer and ecological disaster are the consequences. The dominant industrial system manufactures the destruction of the earth and life on a daily basis.

Within this mega-machine there is no longer anything local, everything is global – the infrastructure of and belief in the capitalist system has the entire globe in its grip and the structures of the industrial system are expanding by the second with the aim of colonising all life on the planet as well as our bodies and thoughts. The structures of the data and electricity network, the transport routes of goods and raw materials, the logistic networks, the metropolises, the factories, the prisons and the temples of technology are the cornerstones and veins of the system that increasingly turns our survival into sleepwalking in digital illusory worlds and keeps the reality of oppression and colonisation on this planet trapped in an interplay of war, state of emergency and catastrophe. In the face of this, it would be hostile to life to fuel the lethargy of the exploited and excluded in order to create guilt in the sense of the prevailing politics. The system cannot be improved, it must be destroyed. Otherwise, all that remains are various forms of moral self-flagellation and hypocrisy (green capitalism, supposedly organic food, etc.).

That is why the anarchy we are talking about puts the problem of destruction at the centre: the destruction of everything that prevents us from living, that restricts us, that stands in the way of freedom, that is imposed on us, that oppresses us, that scourges us, that reduces us, that wants to govern and manage us. The destruction and attacks on the veins and cornerstones of the ruling system are not only of a physical nature, but also target the social relations and ideologies that surround us. So the critique of social relations arms our minds, and the toolbox of sabotage arms our hands – and in a dispersed conflict we come together with other individuals who are equally intent destroying what stands in the way of their freedom. This scattered constellation of struggle – sometimes alone, sometimes in small groups, sometimes coordinated or with many others – emphasises the need to organise oneself, to express one‘s own ideas, to examine them and one‘s own relationships, to discuss them and relate them to one‘s own perspectives. For what can damage the pervasive and fragile network of the system and provoke ruptures in the social reality of oppression is neither a centralised „counter-power“, nor a „critical public debate“, nor reformism in anarchist rhetoric. Rather, numerous scattered individuals and groups who come together according to their own desires and hostilities to dare destructive attacks on the neural pathways of the system can wash away the lethargy and rot of servility, multiply social disorder and disrupt the stability and functionality of order.

A liberating proposal for self-responsibility, for overcoming coercive relations, can therefore be the violent uprising against these relations, in order to propose and implement an unambiguous expression of offensive action against the existing system.