"Whether this negation manifests itself without betraying itself or whether its forces will be hijacked once again to serve the calculated spread of disaster has nothing to do with necessity; it depends on the melancholic decision made by a few free elements to make a practical use of their consciousness, in other words, to sow in the world of the Spectacle a Terror which is the inverse of the terror that reigns at present."
drawn from Tiqqun's What is Critical Metaphysics?
There is a massive and unforgivable "community" threatened by the courageous acts of property destruction on May Day. It is the community of citizens: a false community made up of the prisoners of a civilization so destructive and insane that it rewards even its most vocal defenders with dementia and cancer. The law-abiding citizens are embroiled in a global civil war between the forces of domination and the forces of chaotic freedom but are not allowed to speak of such a war. In taking a position of either mute or principled neutrality, they side with the corpse machine of capitalism even as it robs them of any possibility of love, solidarity, and hope. The timeless sadness of the suburbs perfectly captures the spiritual condition of the community of citizens. In the most basic ethical sense, the modern citizens are inseparable from the "Good Germans" who quietly watched the trains to Poland leave full of Jews, communists and homosexuals and return empty. The damage done by the citizens' ten thousand year old civilization to our living planet and the full spectrum of dispossession in our own lives is approaching the unresolvable, and for most of us the possibility of a healed life has faded from possibility. We are left only with the eternal Spirit of destruction and the revolutionary experiments which grow in the Spirit's shadow.
