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The Coming Insurrection

Intervention, Book 1

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The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord — and with comparable elegance — it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors).

One of its members more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality". The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to "spread anarchy and live communism".

Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the "war on terror".

Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective,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. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those — in France, in the United States, and elsewhere — who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.

©2010 The Invisible Committee (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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"[W]ithout a doubt the most thought-provoking radical text to be published in the past ten years. It deserves to be read and discussed." ( New Statesman)

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It’s worth the existential dread.

10/10 a must read.

It would be more impactful if the language was more accessible, idk why revolutionaries think they need to use complex and elitist language when simple terms would make for easier dissemination of their ideas. You can’t revolutionise the people if the people can’t understand what you’re saying.

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