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The Virtues of a Disorganized Resistance
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The Virtues of a Disorganized Resistance

Author: Stephen DeVoy
http://www.breakyourchains.org/disorganization.htm

American opposition movements have always focused on the
notion of organization. It has always been their goal to organize
the people. Their hope has been to wield the collective power of
the disaffected, downtrodden, and exploited as a single unit
against the concentrated power of the ruling class. While their
hope has been noble, their methods have been foolish. Organized
resistance has many drawbacks. These drawbacks have seldom
been discussed by the opposition. We believe that the only
effective resistance is a completely disorganized, decentralized,
and leaderless opposition.

While, on the face of it, this claim may impress you as absurd. Of
course it seems absurd! It is counterintuitive. Never the less, it is
the ONLY method of resistance that will work within American
society. We will explain why organized resistance has never
worked in the United States. In addition, we will promulgate a new
formula for effective resistance.

Why has organized resistance failed in the United States?

There are many reasons for the failure of organized resistance.
The two primary causes of failure are intimately connected to the
culture of the United States and the political system laid down by
our nation's founding fathers.

The Cultural Cause

Americans, culturally, are anarchists. Few Americans realize this.
Most Americans have a false understanding of the term
"anarchism." However, upon examining the beliefs of your
average American, you will find that most Americans:


do not trust leaders

do not trust government

wish to be left alone

value their privacy

think of themselves as independent from society

do not believe that there is a systemic solution to their
problems

believe that others should be free to do what they choose,
provided they do so in private and do not harm others


While it is undeniable that political culture in the United States
often speaks to the opposite of the above list, it is also undeniable
that most Americans register as neither Democrat or Republican
and most Americans do not vote. Thus, despite the political
culture, most Americans choose not to participate in it. This is not
only due to their belief that the American political system is
hopeless, but also is due to the cultural clash between the wider
culture and the political culture.

Any attempt to organize large numbers of Americans into a single
political movement will fail. Any attempt to create an organization
led by a strong group of leaders will fail. Americans reject
submersion into the collective. In a sense, Americans are
anti-collectivists.

The Political Cause

American political culture is not ideological. Politicians attempt to
draw ideological distinctions between the two major parties, but
these distinctions are a matter of splitting hairs. The only
significant difference between the two political parties is the
degree of compassion represented by the rhetoric of the two
parties. Compassion is not a political concept. Compassion is an
attitude. Thus, the two parties differ, primarily, in attitude and not
ideology.

Despite this, there remain two political parties. One is prompted
to ask "why?" If each party is basically the same, with respect to
ideology, why do they not merge into one party? The answer to
this question is best found in viewing each political party
according to its true nature. American political parties are, for all
intents and purposes, organized crime units. American political
parties have more in common with the Mafia than they have with
their counterparts in more democratic societies. Like Mafia, each
political party competes for control of territory in order to
maximize the benefit to their business constituency. Like Mafia,
the political parties attempt to mold the system to maintain their
positions and access to resources. Like Mafia, the political parties
force the average citizen to pay "protection" under the threat of
violence (taxes). Like Mafia each political party uses the
"protection" money collected for its own advantage.

By defining our political system in terms of the "majority" and the
"opposition," our Constitution enshrines this two mafia system
into law. Each Mafia passes laws to exclude new comers from the
game while focusing the rest of its energy in destroying the other
Mafia.

Thus, any resistance movement that chooses to become an
organization is in competition with these Mafiosi. The deck is
stacked and the power of the state, wielded by these organized
crime units known as the Democratic and Republican parties, will
waste the time and resources of any newcomer. A newcomer can
only succeed by rejecting the political system, draining its
resources, and undermining the rule of the state.

How is disorganized resistance superior?

In some societies, dissidents become heroes. In American
society dissidents are systematically slandered, libeled, harassed,
and villainized. If they become successful, they are murdered
(e.g. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X). In the American experience,
movements that look to leaders are decapitated. Leaders are a
liability, not an asset.

Organizations can be (and are) infiltrated. Organizations can be
taxed. Organizations have legal responsibility. Organizations
have membership lists and lists are wonderful tools for the
oppressor. Organizations take on a life of their own. They
struggle to exist and their continued existence takes priority over
their mission. Organizations attract opportunists, power mongers,
and attention seekers. Organizations tend to exploit their rank and
file for the benefit of their inner circle. Disorganizations share
none of these defects.

Bureaucracy cannot comprehend disorganization. Disorganization
is invisible. The asymmetry of the relationship between
organization and disorganization favors disorganization.
Organization depends upon planning. Planning requires
predictability. Disorganization cannot be predicted. This leaves
organization at a disadvantage.

Organization requires a supply chain. Supply chains can be
disrupted. Disorganization depends only upon the resources of its
members. Supply chains that do not exist cannot be eliminated.

Disorganized movements rely upon swarming. Swarms are
difficult to defend against. If you cut a swarm in half, you have two
swarms. If you eliminate one of the resulting swarms, you still
have a swarm. Disorganization breeds. Organization grows. The
many and dispersed are a more difficult target than the large and
concentrated.

Organizations takes their steps by design. If the design is flawed,
the organization fails. Disorganization relies not upon design but
upon evolution. The motivating notions of disorganization are
memes. Memes evolve and memes compete. This process
improves the motivating notions of disorganization. This process
produces multiple courses of action. While some may fail, others
are likely to succeed. Taken as a whole, disorganization is more
likely to succeed.

The important thing to remember is that it is easier to destroy than
to create that which is designed. Thus, the cost to those who lose
the manifestation of their design outweighs by leaps and bounds
the cost it takes to destroy it. That which evolves is cheap and
when an effort is created to destroy the evolved entity, it merely
mutates and evolves again, adjusting to the new conditions. As a
process that fosters evolution, a movement based on
disorganization will continue to survive, evolve, and expand
without cost. The resource constraints placed upon the designed
(e.g. government and corporate) and those absent from the
evolved (a decentralized and disorganized opposition movement),
favor the later.

The limits of disorganization

We do not propose a complete absence of organization. Instead
we propose a disorganization of units. Units can be as small as a
single individual, or as complex as cell of individuals working
together. Cells may be internally organized, but they should not
be statically organized cell to cell. The movement should have no
commander. It should have no central committee or governing
body. No global plans should be made. The modus operandi of
each unit should be to think globally and act locally. Ideas,
strategies, and tactics should float freely and compete as memes
within the medium of the collective conscious.

Conclusions

We need to construct a disorganized movement. You need not
apply to join. In fact, it might be better if you did not contact
anyone except those with whom you wish to form a unit. Your
ideas, strategies, tactics, and lessons learned should be spread
anonymously or by word of mouth. When you act, should you
decide to act in resistance, attribute your actions to "the
Resistance." The growing din of disorganized disruption will be
felt as an earthquake. There will be trembles. There will be
pre-shocks. The tension will mount and, in time, there will be an
earthquake. When that earthquake strikes, the organized edifice
of the oppressor will fall like a house of cards.
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