Anarchy is not a social form, but a method of individuation. No society will concede to me more than a limited freedom and a well-being that it grants to each of its members. But I am not content with this and want more. I want all that I have the power to conquer. Every society seeks to confine me to the august limits of the permitted and the prohibited . But I do not acknowledge these limits, for nothing is forbidden and all is permitted to those who have the force and the valor.
Consequently, anarchy, which is the natural liberty of the individual freed from the odious yoke of spiritual and material rulers, is not the construction of a new and suffocating society.’ It is a decisive fight against all societies — christian, democratic, socialist, communist, etc., etc. Anarchism is the eternal struggle of a small minority of aristocratic outsiders against all societies which follow one another on the stage of history.
Renzo Novatore
As a complement to our post, the essay “The limits of community” by Ruymán Rodríguez, we share the second of two essays, among others cited by Rodríguez, that help to further understand the bases of his reflection. This second essay, if it should so be called, by Renzo Novatore, is entitled “My Iconoclastic Individualism” and is also available at the Anarchist Library.
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Anarchism in the streets: Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC)
Get into the neighbourhoods, don’t be afraid of hostility, suspicion, quarrels and base passions, that, I assure you, you will encounter. Take advantage rather of the fact that the virtual recuperation penetrates even into those with an empty stomach. Seek out those with no house, salary, health, assistance, hope. Convene a whole neighbourhood and confront it with the idea that it is in their hands to change the situation. Continue to grow, one step at a time, with effective assemblies, free of pompous discourses. Offer reality, naked and harsh reality. And begin to take, take and take, until nothing remains that you don’t manage yourselves. It may frighten, but it is the vertigo before a revolution that begins. You only have to assume it. You won’t be able to? Well at least, dammit, you will have tried. … [I]f they exploit misery, then it is for us to organise it.
Ruymán Rodríguez, Anarquía a pie de calle
We return to the Federación de Anarquitas Gran Canaria (FAGC), with two texts describing the collective’s militant activity and a closing text by Ruymán Rodríguez analysing the politics of okupation …
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