For too long the population of this country has been forced to submit to the State’s campaigns of authoritarian edification, each more grotesque than the other. The latest of these spectacles — the anti-violence campaign — is now before our very eyes.
This campaign, aimed at strengthening everyone’s already-too-powerful inner police, which in turn is founded on feelings of guilt, can be countered only with a violence proportional to the armed-to-the-teeth spiritual repression known as contemporary civilization.
In a situation like today’s, when every thought and every action outside the domination of the abominable cash-registers encounters an armada of arguments mobilized by feelings of guilt and duty (or, for those who have subjugated this enemy, overpowered by too many cops), violence can not be considered anything else than a product in direct proportion to the burden placed on the erotic impulses. We therefore regard violence as an indispensable element, of a transitional character, in the crystalization of Love as the motive force of life.
Against the miserabilists (i.e., those who defend the domination of misery), we maintain a “return to traditional values”: generalized class-warfare!
Human desire and “madness,” however, despite the State’s campaigns of harassment, make their presence felt every day and every night on streetcorners, in factories, in school washrooms and yes, even in banks, retaining their power to laugh in the face of the degradation of everyday life.
Nobody can deny that surrealism exists precisely to generalize and deepen these moments!
To put an end to this order once and for all, we demand:
* Immediate abolition of the polce and the military.
* Arm immigrant youth!
* Dissolve the family!
* Secure your future — break school discipline!
* Subvert the work-ethic — abolish wage-slavery!
DISRUPT THE ANTI-VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN!
The Surrealist Group in Sweden
January 1987