It is essential to understand how capitalism operates and overemphasizing the importance of mass media (along with overstating the importance of capital's recuperation of radical ideas)is a mistake. Consider the first lines of "A Warning to Students of All Ages" (1995) by Raoul Vaneigem: "The school, the family, the factory, the barracks, and, by proxy, the hospital and the prison, have been the inevitable passages by which commodity society has bent to its profit the destiny of the so-called "human" being. The government that this society exercises over human nature, which is still in love with the freedom of childhood, puts in their proper places the growth and happiness that precede -- and delay to diverse degrees -- the familial enclosure, the workshop or office, the military institution, the clinic, the houses of the condemned." Vaneigem clearly implicates the authoritarian institutions with which capital enslaves humanity: its schools, factories, the family, the military, the prison system, and the medical profession. Of course we may add the media and the church, oddly alike in that both institutions serve "the misery of publicity" and please note the former are the historical control devices of capitalism still vitally important in the 21st century. Further our individual connections with these primary institutions are (for most) more real than our relationship with the mass media and the influences we have on these institutions is more direct and substantial. The idea of attaining control of the mass media is very idealistic and seems impractical, although I accept the importance of creating a radical alternative media network (Hakim Bey's "American Samizdat"?)and believe media subversion and propagandizing are worthwhile I am skeptical of any plan fundamentally based on these. How do we attain unilateral control of the spectacular mass media and when we have it what will we say? Will we read Bakunin an Emma Goldman over the airwaves, hold Gnostic Masses, inform punk rockers that their tattoos are bourgeoise? I say we start on the ground, in our schools, at our jobs, with our families and friends, wherever we find ourselves...in their hospitals and prisons, this is the revolution of everyday life. I also believe our message needs to be based in the defining ideas of social anarchism: anti-authoritarianism, communism, consensus democracy, liberation until something more "humanitarian" and coherent comes along. I feel there are powerful elements of situationist theory and Reich's work-democracy (relating to the social and psychosexual barriers that stand in the way of personal responsibility and liberation) that compliment these fundamental anarchist memes. These additions are what the situationists might have considered "the publicity of misery" and I would suggest might be an excellent programme for our anarchist media
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