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"The hierarchy of tactics belonging to the left was minimally transformed within nihilism; they took the head of the spear, the actions that were supposedly more important, as the only ones that mattered, and forgot about all the rest. It is a patriarchal and counterproductive vision. It is a forgetting of all the actions - first disappeared by patriarchy, then by capitalism, and then by the supposedly anticapitalist left - that are necessary for life and for struggle as well. The most aggressive tactics only make sense and can be sustained and repeated in a complex of actions of all types, as long as they are libertarian and direct. By not understanding that struggle means carrying with us a new world that is waiting to be born in the ashes of the dominant system, we transform ourselves into mere weapons against capitalism, in tools dedicated to destroy, without the other things that human beings need to live and fight. It is capitalism that wishes to treat us as tools. We should not do the same..." an excerpt from "An anarchist response to the nihilists" (publisher uncredited)