A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself
with younger wilder forms of resistance. Thirty years of crisis ” mass unemployment and
flagging growth and they still want us to believe in the economy... We have to see that the
economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work it's that there is too
much of it. The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves
of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in
the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for
terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its
members more adequately described the group as the name given to a collective voice bent on
denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic
prescription for an emergent war-machine capable of spreading anarchy and live communism.”
Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005
and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece The Coming
Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda aligning
itself instead with the younger wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around
recent struggles against immigration control and the war on terror.” Hot-wired to the movement
of '77 in Italy its preferred historical reference point The Coming Insurrection formulates
an ethics that takes as its starting point theft sabotage the refusal to work and the
elaboration of collective self-organized life forms. It is a philosophical statement that
addresses the growing number of those—in France in the United States and elsewhere—who refuse
the idea that theory politics and life are separate realms.
