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Global movement as a parallelogram of forces 145 If as Marcos suggests the fusion of north and south in this ‘open’ and ‘planetary’ action system has led to the prevailing image of revolution becoming-carnival, this suggests that, the role of the AGM is crucial to defining the contemporary anatomy of revolution. The umbrella organisation Globalise Resistance (as an offshoot of the Socialist Workers Party) repeats the refrain ‘One Solution Revolution’ with no systematic or programmatic anatomy of a contemporary revolutionary form. Under conditions of global complexity (Urry 2003) the Marxist– Leninist historical record is of limited utility in reading off necessary conditions, appropriate targets for revolutionary capture, or the desirability and appropriateness of representative structures and processes. However, this is not the only historical canon open to us. Commentators, including ourselves, have noted the centrality of anarchism in the expressive form adopted by the AGM (Graeber 2002, Chesters 2003a, Welsh and Purkis 2003, Bowen and Purkis 2004). The logic of an anarchist stance is that revolution cannot be led by a vanguard party or sedimented through a revolutionary government or state as these institutional forms lead back to the establishment of old habits of mind. Instead, revolution requires the dissipative undermining of established institutional forms not their re-titling. The nineteenth century formalisation of the other road to revolution involved the self-organising expression of associative forms of productive activity. Federal associations between communes, workshops, districts, towns would dissolve national frontiers integrating societies through economic co-operation and exchanges with money being a form of exchange medium not the form. Bakunin’s formalisation of anarchist agency within this process emphasised the role of ‘invisible pilots’ working not through ‘overt power’ but by tapping into and expressing the collective ethical stakes declared by ‘all our allies’: Without tricks, without official titles, without official rights, and therefore all the more powerful, as it does not carry the trappings of power. (Dolgof 1972: 180–181) This revolutionary coalition based on autonomy was essential because as Bakunin wrote in a passage with significant contemporary relevance: Never was international reaction in Europe so formidably organised against any movement of the people. Repression has become a new science systematically taught in the military schools of all countries. (1972: 344, see also Chapter 4) This anarchist sensibility has continued its trajectory as a historical force for greater autonomy and freedom of self-organisation, becoming amplified again through the parallelogram of forces constituted by the AGM. This coincides with a Deleuzian pragmatics that is sensitive to the possibilities of
146 Global movement as a parallelogram of forces complex societies and which calls for creative intervention in every stratum, material, emotional and cognitive. So that the pursuit of intensities that are subversive to the controlling characteristics of aggregations of norms might be resisted, and the virtual singularities immanent to such intensities might be discovered and actualised. Thus, both antecedents and virtual futures merge in the parallelogram of forces, which maps the emergent phase space of the AGM as strange attractor.
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