HeliosPi on Nostr: The contrast between authoritarian militarism and libertarian militancy is also ...

The contrast between authoritarian militarism and libertarian militancy is also elaborated in the "Second Battle of Mendiola" essay.

"Even in civil war, there must be tamang proseso, with guerrillas both communist and Bangsamoro bowing to the legality and legitimacy of the peace table. The negotiations at the peace table fulfill two functions. First, they represent the negotiated merger and legitimation of a faction as it ascends into the party of order. Second, they serve to demobilize the force of arms of their own faction and delegitimize any participants in the struggle who refuse to accept the compromise. In this context, tamang proseso suggests that there are only two routes to reform: negotiated integration into the party of order, or armed struggle for the purpose of negotiated integration into the party of order. The possibilities of social insurrection, rupture, revolution—much less anarchy and communization—are excluded altogether."

tamang proseso means “correct process” or “due process", which also extends to the Maoist insurgency of the Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), used to silence criticism on the grounds of sacrifice. Much the same logic permeated the sectarian's of Japan's long '68, a fervor which eventually devalued the will to revolt, because of a lack of care and the disconnect and loss coupled with this.

Besides the repression from the dominant party of order and the mediative cooptation from the caucus of the false critics, " the reimpositive black scare emerges from within the party of anarchy themselves, as a consequence of the real material and ideological limits to the insurrection, limits that the insurrectos must overcome if they are to transform an insurrection into a social revolution that engulfs the whole world.

[...] the insurrectos must struggle against the very power to legitimize, developing an anti-politics that rejects even (or especially) the democratic form and the legitimacy and citizenship it implies."

They continue. It sounds like a big factor that others were unable to overcome was the need for defense and for food. ... ...