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"For the crowd is very peculiar ... use a common signal, which gives people confidence that it will act on all "

Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (1960)

We decided to ask a few quick questions about love and rebellion, not only to try to understand what is lacking in liberal politics. But in order to feel again those forgotten affective aspects of the Revolution (anger and desire) that make it possible and contribute to its spread.

In love, as in the riots, is always something that avoids the classical political thought.By its very nature, these events did not stem from nabivshih on edge ideas about justice, equality and fraternity. Like viruses, they suddenly open up to people something easily transmissible and collective. We are interested in ways to intensify the conditions for achieving this regard, understanding disposition.

Disposition - is preparation. It is the intention or state of readiness ovat rms in a certain way in certain circumstances. Etymological roots of the word "disposition" go to the Latin affectionem (love, affection), which literally translates as "the tendency, influence, a constant state of feeling."Root of the word - affec, from Lat. afficere translated as "doing something, to act."

At the disposition always has two aspects. First - this is the very existence of the disposition (not necessarily obvious). And the second - its manifestation. For example, an electron is a minimal charge, which is often described as "hidden." "To see this charge, we need to do something very special. You could even say that in a certain kind of experiments, the charge "manifests itself."

Like love, rebellion can sneak up unnoticed.It would be pointless to talk about preparing the rebellion, although at least we can prepare for riots: do everything in our power to make fire, throw out the accumulated stress.

At times we are forced to play in the choice between rebellion and love. When such a situation - it's always a question of ethical dispositions. We have to act on it, or to retreat and take to flight. If you do not play, then do not win.

Disposition toward love, as in relation to the riots, allows us to act in the right moment and in appropriate situations.Therefore, we believe that there is a direct connection between those contacts that shape our lives and ways of self-organization, and our disposition towards riots. In other words, between the two forms of organization and our attitude towards the idea of communism. It arises not only in hatred for the arrogance of power, but also in the forms of our hostel. And it is precisely in these forms dorm grow the seeds of our dispositions and our willingness to attack.

Love and riots, as well as absolutely all human desires - this is what emerges as a result of interpersonal relations.For rebellion is always needed the crowd as the beloved (WMD) will always need to get her (his) love. And, moreover, a riot can happen only when a sufficient level of confidence that other people revolt. Around must be other people ready to revolt, and they should also feel the presence of other potential rebels in the crowd. As in love, it is - an example of a contagious confidence.The first timid kiss, as the first broken window - "is not an order to act for other people. This is a signal that tells what the others are ready. "

What is lacking sensuality?

All what we are accustomed to and believe that everyday is engaged in an ongoing war against us. This is best illustrated by the attempts of management and oversight of our bodies, ethics and emotions. Politics, reduced to issues of governance, is in opposition to everything else: we have put aside dreams of love, friendship and art made apolitical, have separated themselves from the space in which the passion unfolds.Policy deprived inner content.

Depoliticization of our lives, eliminated the development of a collective ethical foundation. It remains to mechanical control of the political process. Sensitivity and empathy (affinti-groups) is regarded as solely a question from the sphere of private life, while in the privacy rules apolitical. This - the essence of liberal ideology. Something that seems obvious and desirable in our "private" lives, which is necessary for a healthy relationship is perceived as the hidden truth, devoid of any possibility of political affiliation.Life Style located in the space of production and decision-making, which is separated from the political problems of existence. All other issues - only a consequence of the nature of our interaction with our neighbors for dinner after a hard kezhualnym "organizational" meeting.

Sensual connection preferred lifestyle: no more, no less.

Those who decided to change his lifestyle to the "alternative", often isolated in their "alternative" experience, in fact still coexisting with other people in the capitalist space.Attempts to implement the principle of collective living and aspirations to the hedonistic Utopias and other "lifestyle" offensive strategy adventure exchanged (capitalism) to "positive vibrations". Where people are successful in terms of personal self-actualization, they refuse to concrete attempts to co-creation.

Inevitably, there comes a time (during the individual flight or during the lifetime of the warm cocoon of the community), when the outside world poses tough questions.Before the inevitable necessity of political interaction with the surrounding reality, people will always occupy a certain position. The decision to "distance themselves from the problems of the rest of the world" is never neutral. "Individual salvation" - a synonym for the gap of interpersonal relationships and betrayal. You can not, of course, justify the denial of trust for all those who chose this path.But this very decision as a fundamental existential choice does not deserve any trust. History has already written a fraction of humanity. Now it is presented as the history of Locke to Thoreau by Smith. Individually work on improving the process of further identification. For them, communism has never been to. Their world - a small island, where they found comfort. They abandoned the class war for the sake of serving their own greed.

Change of personal methods of access to goods and the accumulation does not change on a global scale modes of production and operation.Our political affinity bond, in which there is no strategy, and which exist only at the expense of our emotional makeup, set outside the political context.

Poverty imposed on our lives liberal ideology will not disappear in the depths of the compost heap eco-settlement in a nearby forest.

Returning to the disposition

Restoring communication between the disposition toward love and disposition towards riots means reviving relations between feelings, actions and political life.We can not separate it aspires to, from, against which we fight. On one side of the scale - what we wish to construct (co-existence in our world, in harmony with the environment, communisation), on the other - that we crave to destroy (Boss, prisons, borders, Mussar, patriarchy, the state). Creation and destruction - two movements from a single pulse. This development of dispositions based on the strength of the emotions that go beyond the mind control thoughts.

Develop our collective ethical position primarily involves an understanding of the basis of our relationship: "What is it for us is critical and that we will not put under any circumstances." Spotlight - node.We can not develop our ethical and political position as a material force, if we continue to avoid the development of collective dispositions. ⚑

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