from “From Riot to Insurrection: Analysis for an Anarchist perspective against post-industrial capitalism,” by Alredo M. Bonanno
[editor’s note: This was another introduction to Anarchist thinking, and another old blog post re-located here. This text, and other writings of Bonanno can be found translated to English can be found for free online from Digital Elephant, or The Anarchist Library.]
“Capital’s utopia contains something technically mistaken, that is, it wants to do three things that contradict one another: to assure the wellbeing of a minority, exploit the majority to the limits of survival, and prevent insurgence by the latter in the name of their rights.”
-Bonanno’s points in this text are really to use moments of irrational rioting to institute “an insurrectional and revolutionary reality” before there is ever to be a social revolution, because the communications controls of the ‘included’ classes of society are another manipulation of economy for all those that make up the ‘excluded’ class in post-industrial capitalism that need to be eliminated in order for the excluded to begin freeing themselves and all people of the previous dominating mindset that has been used to control not only the excluded but all peoples in a post-industrial capitalist society.
If I am wrong in this understanding of Bonanno’s text, feel free to correct me or to add any relevant information to enrich my understanding in his anti-political outlook.