The Coming Insurrection is a French radical leftist, anarchist tract written by The Invisible Committee, the nom de plume of an anonymous author (or possibly authors). It hypothesizes the “imminent collapse of capitalist culture”. The Coming Insurrection was first published in 2007 by Editions La Fabrique, and later (2009) translated into English and published by Semiotext(e). The book is notable for the media coverage which it received as an example of a radical leftist manifesto, particularly from American conservative commentator Glenn Beck. The Coming Insurrection is also known for its association with the legal case of the Tarnac Nine, a group of nine young people including Julien Coupat who were arrested in Tarnac, rural France, on November 11, 2008 “on the grounds that they were to have participated in the sabotage of overhead electrical lines on France’s national railways”.The Tarnac Nine were variously accused of conspiracy, sabotage, terrorism, and being the author(s) of The Coming Insurrection. – wikipedia
The following is a quote by the “Invisible Committee” from their book The Coming Insurrection:
Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance. Something that is constituted here resonates with the shock wave emitted by something constituted over there.… An insurrection is not like a plague or a forest fire — a linear process which spreads from place to place after an initial spark. It rather takes the shape of a music, whose focal points, though dispersed in time and space, succeed in imposing the rhythms of their own vibrations, always taking on more density.
The book, written by radical leftists, talks about the “imminent collapse of capitalist culture.” It was first published in France in 2007 and is split up into two parts. The section “Get Going!” lays out a pathway for revolution.
The main strategy is to wait for a crisis — economic, environmental or political — and then begin attacking government institutions, corporations and police.
What is happening in America to the Department of Homeland Security, just over the past few days? The acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Claire Grady, sent a department-wide memo on Saturday warning employees of recent developments. She said:
This assessment is based on specific and credible threats that have been levied against certain DHS employees and a sharp increase in the overall number of general threats against DHS employees.
Grady went on to instruct DHS employees not to wear any identifying markings outside official buildings, not to talk about where they work in public or on social media, and to keep their windows and doors locked at their homes. She warned to be alert and aware of any unexpected changes in their neighborhoods.
Anger, rage, terror and violence.
“If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Already you have members of your cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants. We have protesters taking up at their house who are saying, ‘No peace, no sleep. No peace, no sleep,” – Maxine Waters, referring to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s recent run-ins with protesters, as well as Florida AG Pam Bondi being confronted at the Mister Rogers biopic. “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters continued, “And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
This is mob-justice mentality–just as the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Maximilien Robespierre was known for inciting mobs to use any means necessary to achieve his end.
Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy. ~ Maximilien Robespierre
Last week, Wikileaks leaked the information of over 9,000 current and former ICE employees. They did this to “increase accountability.” What kind of accountability are they looking for by pointing radicals to people’s homes? It’s not oversight they’re looking for. It’s insurrection. Ever since that leak, DHS has received more than 20 credible threats. In one instance, a burnt and decapitated animal corpse was left on a DHS employee’s porch.
As the “Invisible Committee” described it, this crisis is “taking on more density.” Anger and rage are begetting terror and violence.
There is a reason people like David Hogg are working so hard to take away your guns.
At p.420 of “Wealth and Democracy” by Kevin Phillips, copyright 2002, the author had this to say on this very topic, to wit:
A RENEWAL OF POLITICS OR THE END OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM?
The Progressive analogies so appealing to a minority in the 2000 elections tapped, at their root, a basic optimism that American democracy and exceptionalism would continue, that our civic culture was not in some global or historical peril.
Doubters saw gloomier possibilities: the gathering of an undemocratic age, the global entrenchment of wealth elites, and even the possibility of U.S. capitalism – unrepentant at home and cocksure internationally – becoming another example of elite inflexibility and vulnerability.
On the surface, and given the parallels, another Rooseveltian-type mobilization was plausible.
By mobilizing against corruption, polarization, and market Darwinism – living specifics, not gray abstractions – politics might be able to regain the relevance and popular support it had lost in the late twentieth century.
Part of that would have to include a more democratic approach to taxation, money, and banking.
Successful reform would not only prolong the rhythm so essential to U.S. politics, the alternation between public and private purpose, but it would prolong the case for American exceptionalism by proving a continuing national ability to return to vital roots.
None of the previous powers could.
Indeed the popular reactions in mid-eighteenth-century Holland and early-twentieth-century Britain against opulent aristocratic and financial elites raise a different possibility: the emergence during the first third of the twenty-first century of a U.S. radicalism seeded by economic and political pessimism.
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Those words about “the emergence during the first third of the twenty-first century of a U.S. radicalism seeded by economic and political pessimism” were written sixteen years ago now, and we are indeed in the first third of the twenty-first century.
So the future is now, and it sure does not look pretty.
They are going to wake up a ‘Sleeping Giant’. I do not think they will enjoy his company once he is fully awake.
‘Let The Games Begin’…
That pretty much says it all from our perspective here to the north of you.