"CrimethInc. began in the mid-1990's. I can't report on the original goals of all the participants, but I can trace my own initial intentions to a discussion among some friends about the revolutionary organization Winston joins in Orwell's 1984. The idea came up that it was actually a branch of the government . . . and from there, we began to consider what the opposite kind of organization would be (one that purported to be a part of the culture industry that rules today, while secretly undermining it), and how to form one. The irony, the margin-walking between contradictions, both were intrinsic to CrimethInc. from the beginning . . . and honestly, I can tell you no better now than I could have then whether we are just indulging reactionary desires by forming yet another "revolutionary organization," or heroically helping humanity to evolve past the despoticism of such a thing by detourning/deconstructing the idea of the revolutionary organization."
"In our experience, people come to be involved with CrimethInc. projects through a sort of self-selecting process: those who are interested in or inspired by what we have done before come to us, bringing their own new ideas and inspirations. We want CrimethInc. to be something constantly evolving and changing, to be a vast, beautiful monster that contains the same contradictions within it that we do within ourselves as individuals, so little effort is made to "police" the activities individuals do under the name. The identity of CrimethInc., if it must have one, can thus be described not by a set of characteristics or rules, but rather by the historical process which has been its development as new ideas and activities grew out of the old ones (again, just like in the anarchist community). Incidentally, this was the only way Hume thought the identity of an individual human being could be explained: from birth to death, nothing is constant (as all the cells of the body are constantly dying and being replaced, memories forgotten, mind states shifting...) except for the process of living and evolving, the chain of events which actually goes back far before conception and extends in every other direction throughout the world as well. In the same sense, since CrimethInc. is not the intellectual property of any one group of people, we consider our projects "communalized" as a part of the cosmos--thus, "CrimethInc." can belong to anyone who sees a part of herself reflected within our actions."
evasion@crimethinc.com
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