one that is like an iceberg. The roles created to replace our identities in everyday life must become the disguise of the underground.
An underground strategy puts the impulse of confrontation into perspective. We must fight against the planned obsolescence of confrontations which lock us into the lime-span of instant revolution. Going underground means having a long range strategy-something which plans for 1985. The iceberg strategy keeps us cool. It trains us to control our reflexes and to calculate our reponses.
The underground strategy is also necessary to maintain autonomy. Autonomy preserves the organizational form of the collective which is critical to the sharpening of its politics. Nothing will be achieved by submerging ourselves in a chaos of revolutionary fronts. The principal strategy of the counterfeit Left will be to smear over the differences with appeals to a class unity that no longer exists. An underground strategy without a revolutionary form of organization can only emerge as a new class society. To destroy the system of oppression is not enough. We must create the organization of a free society. When the underground emerges, the collectives will be that society.
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