Posted by ALEXIS CASTILLO on June 26, 1998 at 02:04:09 PM EDT:
In Reply to: Re: the Acratas posted by NOT BORED! on January 13, 1998 at 08:25:06 PM EST:
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"In Madrid, the group known as the Acratas has known more than any other, just by breaking with the illusion of a revolutionary syndicalism, to express the radical possibilities and to give them a scandalous reality. Constituted in October 1967, this group is not without analogies to the Enrages of Nanterre, which says a lot about the epoch in which we live: [these groups share the] same terrain, same program, same forms of action. The initiative of violence that all too often belongs to the police, has become under their influence the quasi-daily act of the "students." In Spain, every assembly ends literally with singing and a riot. The Acratas, who translate and diffuse the texts of the SI, are at the origin of the Iberian misfortune of J.J. Servan-Schreiber, whom [the Acratas] have chased out without much ado from the Faculty of Right, in which he had the pretension to want to speak, and the illusion of finding a public which contents itself with laughing. The critical use of violence has allowed the Acratas to evade the recuperation inherent in traditional terrorism. If the police, the automobiles, the scholarly material and the shop-windows have served to verify their critique of ideology, of hierarchy, [and] of the commodity, it is by precipitating the crisis of a class that they have won out over the cops, that they have known how to better defy the petrified history of Francoism. By this gesture, they linked up with the great revolutionary tradition that has never seen any other preliminary to the instauration of the absolute power of the Workers' Councils, of which, to be sure, the Acratas made use.
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"If the Acratas have disappeared since June 1968, they have left the vivifying memory of a group as close to Marx as to Durruti, and as far away from Lenin as from Proudhon. . . ."
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Excerpt from "Notes on Spain," Internationale Situationniste #12, September 1969. ESTIMADOS AMIGOS, QUEREMOS CONTACTARLOS, PARA ENVIARLE EL NUEVO NUMERO DE NUESTRO PERIODICO. FAVOR ESCRIBIR A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCION: SR. ALEXIS HERNANDEZ, CALLE GUERE 110-295, NAGUANAGUA EDO CARABOBO VENEZUELA.