FOX NEWS reviews "The Coming Insurrection"

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Fox: Extreme Left Calling People to Arms
by Glenn Beck

While the government warns that right-wing extremists could be domestic terrorists, and The New York Times, says I could incite those crazy conservatives to violence, the extreme left is actively calling for violence!

As world economies go down the tank and unemployment continues to rise, disenfranchised people are set to explode.

The dangerous leftist book that could spark this is “The Coming Insurrection.” This is a call to arms for violent revolution, authored anonymously by a French group called the Invisible Committee who want to bring down capitalism.

This started in France and spread to countries like Greece and Iceland, where people are out of work, out of money and out of patience.

Now it’s coming here. The book comes out in English in the U.S. in August. I have one of the first English copies.

The book was written after riots in the Paris suburbs in 2005 tore the country apart, and that was before the economy really got bad. This is the anti-”Common Sense,” where I call for peaceful protest.

This is a book of revolution. Remember this is not from the right, you know the radicals that everyone is so worried about in government. This is from the far left. Let me share a bit:

“Take up arms. Do everything possible to make their use unnecessary. There is no such thing as a peaceful insurrection. Weapons are necessary.”

The French government was so freaked out they arrested nine people believed to have written “The Coming Insurrection” on charges of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity” for allegedly sabotaging train lines in France.

When I first heard of this book it was in The New York Times book section. A group had organized an unauthorized reading of “The Coming Insurrection” at a New York City bookstore. When they were shooed out of the store they went to Starbucks and so on. Not exactly terrorist activity; more of a curiosity.

But it gets a little more creepy when you look at this: One of those leaders arrested in France Julien Coupat was held for six months and just released this May. According to a story in The Globe and Mail back in January of 2008 while visiting Canada, Coupat and his girlfriend sneaked over the border to visit New York City. According to relatives, they didn’t want their photos and fingerprints in the hands of U.S. authorities. Why is that? (By the way are our borders protected yet?)

Remember the media will tell you the right is the one to be feared. They do everything they can to tie any random nutjob shooting to conservatives. “The shooter was a fan of ‘24′ — ‘24′ starred Jon Voight — Jon Voight is a conservative!”

But this is a call for violence. Here is more:

“It’s a question of knowing how to fight, to pick locks, to set broken bones and treat sicknesses; how to build a pirate radio transmitter; how to set up street kitchens; how to aim straight.”

The synopsis of the book describes it as “an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe… a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to spread anarchy and live communism.”

A few years ago I said that Europe is on the brink of destruction. This is yet another sign that it’s coming. Even in Japan where protests have been seen as taboo since the 1960s, young people angered over the economy and fear for their future — taking to the streets, beginning to unionize. The communist party of Japan says they are getting 1,000 new members a month.

This book has not even been released in this country yet. It has been passed hand to hand and via the Internet, much like the pamphleteers in pre-revolution America. Thomas Paine was one of them. He issued a call to arms. I am not doing that. You are an idiot if you start shooting people — all that does is delegitimize the cause. Be like Ghandi, like Martin Luther King.

But people on the extreme left are calling people to arms. I am not calling to ban this book, but you should read it to know what is coming and be ready when it does.

Remember after MLK's death

Remember after MLK's death LBJ advocated non-violence to stave off the riots; while at the same time bombing the hell out of vietnam? The empty calls for "non-violence" by this author are humorous, laughable and outright racist. "Non-violence only when social change is directed at the rich, white elite. In all other circumstances stockpile arms and kill your enemies." Can't wait to read this book.

Why wait? Be a pamphleteer!

Why wait? Be a pamphleteer! Like Thomas Paine! But Anti-Common Sense.

http://www.bloom0101.org/thecominginsurrection.pdf

What in the name of reason

What in the name of reason posseses anyone who believes in this non-logic? Must be loonies from the far left. The same ones who believe you can spend your way out of debt, and tax the "rich" and get back to square one. And this affliction seems to be affecting many liberals (progressives) in this once great country.

Les

wrong forum, dumbfuck

wrong forum, dumbfuck

How funny that his

How funny that his conclusion is the book's very thesis.

agreed. this whole thing is

agreed. this whole thing is fucking hilarious and reminds me of that word ANTIPHRASIS which appears once in the book. setting up kitchens and healing broken bones is violence; tillers killer wasnt a conservative. this book is gonna be flying off the shelves!

but for real its a good counterpoint to the thesis. while we feel all swell about our new theory speak, the otherside is processing the exact same data, towards inverted conclusion.

Dear New York pranksters:

Dear New York pranksters: Glenn Beck has saved the day for you! See, guerrilla marketing DOES work.

I like the part from the

I like the part from the video where FOX FUCKING NEWS puts "THE MEDIA WILL TELL YOU TO FEAR THE PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT" across the screen, while Fox warns us this whole piece, to fear the people on the "left". Doublespeak at its best.

The book is now 29 overall

The book is now 29 overall on amazon.com sales and, even better, number 1 in "public policy."

we all win if it sells a

we all win if it sells a bunch of copies for Semiotexte/MIT Press!

We all win if you shut your

We all win if you shut your piehole, little brat.

when it hits #1 on Amazon we

when it hits #1 on Amazon we can all congratulate ourselves on a job well done! All funds to the distributor! No funds to the support committees! Down we rise!

serious question, is

serious question, is semiotexte giving any money to the arrestee support?
or is continuing to put out negrist garbage the revolutionary cause these funds are going for.

I think their huge piles of

I think their huge piles of cash are mostly used to support Toni Negri's lifestyle. I mean, really, they are superflush and they have a stable of writers to support, but it's no sweat.

i agree. i really hope the

i agree. i really hope the money or some portion of it is going to the tarnac 9.

Semiotexte makes no money at

Semiotexte makes no money at all from these volumes. The money is made by MIT Press, the distributor. You can bet your ass they aren't giving money to "terrorists."

Having worked for MIT

Having worked for MIT Press--it's a non-profit and no-one working there makes much money at all. You're part of a mission, it's prestigious, they tell you. And after seeing that they published this book, I pretty much agree! It's an honor to be affiliated with them.

To build the hype more (and

To build the hype more (and to actually get people to read it), maybe we should promote 'book burnings' in our towns and act like we are going to burn it, to build the hype...

haha... that guy is just

haha... that guy is just like i would expect a fascist systems lapdog to be like. he reminds me a lot of the tv guy in v for vendetta.

the best part is that he hasn't even read the book yet and all he knows are some small passages that someone else has given him. maybe he'll become a guerilla when he comes back from vacation...

LEFTISTS???? OMFG GTFO

LEFTISTS???? OMFG GTFO

The people that wrote it are

The people that wrote it are ultraleft communists. Is that not left anymore?

no they are not. they are

no they are not. they are called ultraleft communists by the french gov't

it is a scare tactic. they were using ultra in the sense of ultra = extreme and vice versa.

they have no sense of history considering there is a sect of communists apparently from ages ago that actually are labeled as "ultra left"

Uh, no. The text is

Uh, no. The text is considered ultraleft communist because it has a lot in common with that tendency.

prove it.

prove it.

Maybe just "communists"?

Maybe just "communists"? Ultraleft sounds like "ultragauche," which is the term used by the French interior minister. Coupat, in the interview, dissociates himself from this term, saying it hasn't existed since the 1920s, etc.

exactly that is the

exactly that is the interview where one can learn about the term "ultraleft"

Why the fuck there is even

Why the fuck there is even need for any labeling? So to be able to put everything into neat slots? Oh the horror if there is something we can't label or especially people who doesn't want to be labeled or associated to someone else's sect.

stfu

stfu

go fuck yourself

go fuck yourself

"Don't label me, ma, I'm my

"Don't label me, ma, I'm my own person! No one has ever done anything like me before!"

HaHa,this is what happens

HaHa,this is what happens from being a subject of the nomenclator.

JUST A MORNING RANT TO BOTH

JUST A MORNING RANT TO BOTH SIDES.
WE ARE FUCKED... ROME BURNS ON SUCKERS.!!!

soon there will be be nothing left to argue about
soon nothing will appear right anymore
soon the middle will rot to it's core
the sooner the better for us all.

Spoilt isolationists
prattle and wank behind fire curtains
A fox fed fire in their beds
How little they know of Europe
How little they understand
of where youthful hope lies
They cannot stop this tide
The most unfit race
all wearing sneakers
all at once a cacophony
of speakers, voice over mocha frappochinos,
that "something is wrong"
so much room in the underbelly of this repulsively fat population
God abandoned your grotesque nation
get back in your box
ideas over your station

Such excellent vitriolic

Such excellent vitriolic prose at this early hour!You need to get satirically laid though :)

That video was fucking

That video was fucking hilarious!

I really hope everyone (out there in real America) reads this book.

"It’s not that there’s not enough work, it’s that there is too much of it. All things considered, it’s not the crisis that depresses us, it’s growth. We must admit that the litany of stock market prices moves us about as much as a Latin mass. Luckily for us, there are quite a few of us who have come to this conclusion."

- The Coming Insurrection

this guy is so awesome. the

this guy is so awesome.
the right has NEVER used violence! but now people are UNIONIZING in JAPAN!! we are on the BRINK OF DESTRUCTION!!

yeah that japan shit was

yeah that japan shit was hilarious!

OH NO SONY MIGHT GO THE WAY OF GM! FUCK!!! WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO PLAYSTATION?! SHIT!

Thats some real funny shit.

Thats some real funny shit. "DON'T DISMISS THESE PEOPLE"!!! And on top of that he never even read the damn book. I'm actually looking forward to the next comedy skit, when, or if, he finally reads the book. Shit is funny as hell.

-- Wargasm

"Thats some real funny shit.

"Thats some real funny shit. "DON'T DISMISS THESE PEOPLE"!!! And on top of that he never even read the damn book. I'm actually looking forward to the next comedy skit, when, or if, he finally reads the book. Shit is funny as hell."

-- Wargasm

oh that guy is a laff and a half! it is especially entertaining when he wigs out and they give you extreme close ups of his eyes.

Thomas Paine was an

Thomas Paine was an insurrectionarist! Haha!

Just read this. I think its

Just read this. I think its pretty poor to be honest. It reads just like the speeches you get from stoned anthropology students at lefty parties - very radical and intelligent sounding, but with very little there. This seems to be something typical of insurrectionist-type writing - a huge amount of hyperbole and literary flourish around some wafer-thin central propositions, which in this case seem to be mainly the usual mistrust of organisation, decision-making, accountability, etc, with useful ideas 'organisation', 'communes', 'base committees' etc defined in such a vague way as to be meaningless.

I don't think it works very well as an analysis of the world, or in terms of proposals for practical activity, as every point is a rhetorical flourish first, and argument second.Take the stuff about the point of assemblies not being to make actual decisions, but to revel in each others presences and wait for the right course of action to be revealed in the clouds for example. Its cringeworthy.

Also, it seems like they've been reading too much science fiction, and have left planet Earth entirely:

"Here lies the present paradox: work has totally triumphed over all other ways of existing, at the very moment when workers have become superfluous. Gains in productivity, outsourcing, mechanization, automated and digital production have so progressed that they have almost reduced to zero the quantity of living labor necessary in the manufacture of any product."

I can see why this kind of stuff is appealing. Its written with a nice momentum, and flows like a novel. Its easy to get drawn into, and is compellingly written, in a literary sense at least. Unfortunately, that means it isn't very useful as a description of the world or how to engage with it, and leaves you with very little in the end.

As opposed to the stirring

As opposed to the stirring and inspriational unity manifestos of neo-Platformists, the brilliant calls to solidarity with miniscule anarcho-syndicalist unions, the rousing invitations to merge with anti-imperialists and other charlatans in Popular Fronts? Give me a good novel any day. At least I can then decide with whom I have affective affinity so that we can engage in attacks against the deadening status quo and its apologists. We then can choose wisely with whom to organize, when where and how to attack. Keep your stultifying herdlike semi-professional anarcho-activist celebrity; we'll take self-gratifying anonymity. Need I remind you that you have no effective victories under your belt either?

"As opposed to the stirring

"As opposed to the stirring and inspriational unity manifestos of neo-Platformists, the brilliant calls to solidarity with miniscule anarcho-syndicalist unions, the rousing invitations to merge with anti-imperialists and other charlatans in Popular Fronts? Give me a good novel any day. At least I can then decide with whom I have affective affinity so that we can engage in attacks against the deadening status quo and its apologists. We then can choose wisely with whom to organize, when where and how to attack. Keep your stultifying herdlike semi-professional anarcho-activist celebrity; we'll take self-gratifying anonymity. Need I remind you that you have no effective victories under your belt either?"

agreed. it don't need to be told what to do, sometimes maybe how, but never what is a proper goal...that decision is for me (and you, and that person over there, and the next person...i think you get the picture) alone to come to. from there i will flow with the associations that happen to come with it and decide which people are my friends in terms of strategy, tactics, and vision.

What exactly there is in

What exactly there is in that quote for this: "Also, it seems like they've been reading too much science fiction, and have left planet Earth entirely" ?

Well, let's try to ascertain

Well, let's try to ascertain what exactly "there is" in that quote.

They're dreamers with no substance, no guts, and no balls. But they DO need capitalist created money, ya know?

oh so they are female huh?

oh so they are female huh? no balls? really?

"this is a man's world. they're so unrealistic!"

wtf are you talking about?

wtf are you talking about? one tip: if have nothing to say, it's better to shut up. at least you don't make yourself look like an idiot..

Sort of like going to a

Sort of like going to a "poetry reading" comprised of multi culti open border University of Whatever stoners.

Yep, there's the future.

The passage you quote

The passage you quote reiterates a paradox many so-called classical economists, not to mention sociologists, have formulated: that socially necessary labor has, with the massive digitization and automation of the production process, been reduced to increasingly small quantities. Repeat, "socially necessary labor." Jeremy Rifkin says things like this, it doesn't take an invisible committee. The question is why does work, the "order of work," the syndrome of work survive its own obsolence, live on after the quantity of labor time is no longer the measure of value? Their answer is clear: capitalism no longer produces commodities, it produces subjectivities, mutilated, dependent, on the verge of collapse, who need work even when work is no longer necessary. In short, work is now a political technology, a discipline, a mechanism of control, not a social necessity. Indeed, the real question this book poses is how to organize in the ruins of the social itself, after the social implosion?

But we shouldn't feed trolls like this, as I am doing. Expect more of them, and ignore.

Who knows, maybe you

Who knows, maybe you actually enlightened the moron.

Sure as hell enlightened me

Sure as hell enlightened me some. Good comment, clootz! Definitely an interesting topic that should be discussed some time.

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