PUBLISHER'S INTRODUCTION
I discovered this
interesting bit of history on a web site called - I believe -Outlaw History and
Theory (I do not have the url available
now), which examines the practice of illegality among the exploited classes from
an anarchist perspective. What drew me to this article was not any sort of
knee-jerk liberal antifascism, that gets all warm inside at any talk of
resistance to fascism no matter what the source, but rather the description of
resistance by youth largely from the exploited classes attacking the domination
under which they lived with audacity even when it took the form of a genocidal
totalitarian police state of the most extreme form. The actions these youth
took were direct action, and in the case of the Edelweiss Pirates, seem to have
been largely autonomous. The Meuten were
apparently connected with communist groups, and I wish the article had gone
into differences between the practice of the Pirates and the Meuten, since this could have been a
fruitful area for practical analysis, but of course an article like this is
just a beginning.
To be clear, I am not
interested in antifascism by itself. Without a clear revolutionary perspective,
the struggle against fascism all too easily degenerates into the struggle for
liberal values and the democratic state. Thus, I agree with Alfredo Bonanno's
statement: "I have never liked
fascists, nor consequently fascism as a project. For other reasons (but which
when carefully examine turn out to be the same), I have never liked democratic,
liberal, republican, Gaullist, labour, marxist, communist, socialist or any
other of those projects. Against them I have always opposed not so much my
being anarchist as my being different, and therefore anarchist. " I
publish this article in that spirit, desiring and working for a struggle
against all states, regardless of their political form like that of the
Edelweiss Pirates against the Nazi state in Germany between 1938 and 1945.
-Wolfi
Landstreicher
The website mentioned above was found and is linked below. -
Omnipresence