[matilda] Moles.

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

Some text about moles, either as an addition to Ben's text or a 
seperate thing to go on a wall in the building somewhere:....


But the revolution is thoroughgoing. It is still traveling through 
purgatory. It does its work methodically...And when it has 
accomplished this... Europe will leap from its seat and exult: Well 
burrowed, old mole!

- Karl Marx, Eighteenth Brumiare


Marx tried to understand the cycle of working class struggles that 
were emerging in nineteenth century Europe in terms of a mole and 
its subterranean tunnels. The mole would surface from below in 
joyous revolutionary moments which developed from the ground up 
(1830, 1848...). Between these joyous moments, the mole moves 
underground, not to hide passively, but to dig out new paths, 
finding new possibilities for subversion. 

We can try and understand the new global cycle of struggles against 
twentieth century capitalism in terms of a 'tribe of moles.' The 
moles burrow out a series of North West passages to a multiplicity 
of new worlds and new ways of living - from Argentinian factory 
occupations to the Indymedia network, to Reclaim the Streets, to 
social centres like this one around the globe. Alternatives built 
from the ground up by ordinairy people, digging out a space for 
themselves to live despite the pressures of work and money.



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