Homage to Cataluna - try #3 to remove HTML clutter

[rich]

an example of that which makes much of ATD such uninspired reading,
aestehtically-speaking

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> “WE LOOK AT the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with more
> freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the State
> is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into
> a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to
> Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with
> counter-Death, also known as Chemistry,” said Flaco.
>
> He was a survivor of Anarchist struggles in a number of places both sides
> of the Atlantic, notably Barcelona in the ‘90’s. Provoked by the bombing of
> the Teatro Lyceo during a performance of Rossini’s opera William Tell, the
> police had rounded up not just Anarchists but anybody who might be in any
> way opposed to the regime, or even thinking about being. Thousands were
> arrested and sent “up the mountain” to the fortress of Montjuich which
> crouched thuglike over the city as if having just assaulted it, and when
> the dungeons there were full, prisoners were kept chained in warships
> converted to prison ships, lying at anchor down in the harbor.
>
> “Fucking Spanish police,” Flaco said. “In Cataluña they are an occupying
> army. Any of the prisoners of ‘93 who weren’t Anarchists before going into
> Montjuich arrived rapidly at the heart of the matter. It was like finding
> an old religion again, one we’d almost forgotten. The State is evil, its
> divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out
> of Montjuich broken, dying, without working genitals, intimidated into
> silence. Whips and white-hot irons are certainly effective for that. But
> all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good
> bourgeoisie, came out hating the State. I include in that obscene word the
> Church, the latifundios, the banks and corporations, of course.”
>
> Against the Day, chapter 28
>
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