After a while, the believers and liberators, the Anarchists, became divided and fragmented. Many lost sight of their hopes and dreams, and many more were to never discover them. And soon, Anarchists became a legend from the past, a faltering remnant stumbling along aimlessly.
Now, once again, the numbers are growing, and the forces of the oppressors are feeling our return with growing alacrity. But the fragmentations of the past have irrevocably caused divisions amongst our own ranks, so that we even go so far as to oppress ourselves through means of conflicting routes to our dream.
A multitude of anarchists call for violence, called for insurrection against the oppressors whose numbers are pulling from the ranks of the oppressed with alarming speed. While the Anarchists slumbered and some were waiting to be resurrected, the oppressors were learning from their past mistakes and using this newfound malicious wisdom to prevent anyone from escaping their grasp…
Another multitude, just as strong, demanded non-violence and pacifism to combat the ranks of the oppressors, believing very strongly that the oppressed would simply fear the Anarchists if they were violent and flock more strongly into the arms of the oppressors, never to leave. While the Anarchists slumbered, new lessons were learned about ways to combat the oppressors, ways which would not turn away the oppressed and would lessen the casualties among the liberators and oppressed alike.
But in their foolishness, both the insurrectionary and the pacifistic anarchists were emulating the ways of the oppressors, falling in for their traps, and allowing themselves to become intimate oppressors of those who were their brothers, sisters, and comrades!
And from this point in history we come to our present day, where the visions of Anarchism have so divided our ranks that nothing notable is being achieved. While we quibble about the fine points of acceptability, billions upon billions are falling into the hands oppressors, or descending into their ranks, instead of doing something meaningful about it!
We must stop bickering amongst ourselves.
Many have claimed themselves into the ranks of Anarchists who wish no more to harm and destroy, to cause chaos and destruction for the sake of it. First we must unite in our positive vision and allow the oppressed to see that our vision of the future is not chaos, but peace and progression toward the ever illusive Utopia. We must educate people to see what the true vision is, so that the falsehoods cried out by the false-Anarchists will be rejected by Anarchists and Oppressed alike, and we may possibly heal the hearts of the false-Anarchists and bring them into our fold as vigorous and healthy brothers, sisters, and comrades!
Once we have combated the confusion sewn into our ranks, we must next unite, vigorously and wholly! All methods, all tactics are useful, especially when applied both in the appropriate contexts and by people who believe in it themselves. All beliefs and values are useful, so long as they all bring us to the same end, so long as they are honestly and truly believed without malice. The advantages to this are so numerous, so enormous, that to not do it would be idiocy. It would first announce to the world that even though we are comrades, we are still individuals! We still hold our own beliefs, values, experiences, we are still ourselves independent from the others, and those that join us would not have to sacrifice themselves for an ideal, like the religions and nations of the world constantly force them to. Uniting in this manner would also sew seeds of confusion into the enemy and force them to use discretion and conscience when fighting against us. They gain nothing by firing into the ranks of pacifists, where they also gain nothing by bringing nothing but shields against insurrectionaries. Thus, if they use violence against the pacifists in some effort to rule with an iron fist, they will lose their oppressed and strengthen our ranks. Simultaneously, if they see we, as a group of individuals, are so devoted that we are willing to put our lives on the line to further our future, can hold our own and are actually doing something meaningful and real, we will gain even more. And by uniting ourselves, we don’t exclude anybody on the spectrum of violence and non-violence, making it possible to achieve our dream where no person is a slave anywhere on earth!
So, comrades, whether it be to arms or otherwise, let us stand together! Let not the fragmentations of the past nor the seeds of confusion which the oppressors sew break us apart, nor separate our embrace. Let us fight in whatever way we choose while still loving our brothers, sisters, and comrades in Anarchism, so that one day we can live and love freely and none shall bow in servitude ever again!
