TABLE OF CONTENTS
Structure
Radicality
Theory
and practice
Antispectacular

Structure
Alienation cannot be fought in alienated
forms. The struggle for self-management requires the self-management of
the struggle. The IAI is a procouncilist, antitheocratic and insurrectionary
organization within which cannot be tolerated any theologies, hierarchies,
specializations, dogmatisms or reformisms. If its members remain free and
responsable alone of their activity outside of the organization, the absolute
democratic horizontality of the IAI requires of each one of them that they
radicaly criticize society - theoreticaly and in acts. The organization
rests on theoretical, tactical and organisational unity. The IAI is not
a ridiculous model before the hour of a future society which can only be
the result of the expropriation of everything by the councils. The IAI’s
aim is not to represent or direct anything; its members represent only
themselves and are ready to collaborate with all those who share their
theses.
Radicality
Radical critic is not the sum of
the totality of criticisms but a critic of totality. This critic excludes
all partial theory or practice.
Theory
and practice
Theory is not a sovereign authority,
nor a system of truths given once and for all, but a project, an activity,
always uncertain of acheiving an elucidation of the world. Antitheocratic
practice is not the application of a preexisting knowledge but an activity
which aims others as autonomous beings and regards them as the agents of
the development of their own autonomy. The knowledge on which it is based
is necessarily fragmentary and provisional, not only because there cannot
exist an exhaustive theory but because practice itself constantly provokes
the emergence of new knowledge, because only activity makes the world speak.
Antispectacular
Antitheocrats know that compromise
is much more dangerous than confidentiality. Anything that can be put in
spectacle confesses its incapacity to criticize the spectacle. To appear
in the spectacle on one’s own consent, without aiming to harm it, is always
a collaboration with this regime. Even to appear in it without wanting
is often a serious defeat which is better to expect, so much one risks
being deformed or degraded by it for not appearing in it as an enemy. When
one makes an important social critic, one certainly abstains from peddling
it on television or in other synods of the same kind.
The theory aims at elucidation but
the form of the activity tends for maximum distance from the acceptable
and awaited codes ; the unacceptable and unbearable must be systematically
looked for.
If our identities are abandoned
to the police and gossip, it is because these identities are of no interest.
The speed reading which the spectacle imposes is practised by reading a
title for an article and a signature for a essay. We do not seek to make
a name for ourselves. We are too ambitious for that.