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 The collective gives priority to local action. It rejects the mass politics of the white nationalists with their national committees, organizers and the superstars. Definitely, the collective is out of the mainstream and what’s more it feels no regrets'. The aim of a collective is to feel new thoughts and act new ideas-in a word to create its own space. And that, more than any program, is what is intolerable to all the xerox radicals trying to reproduce their own images.

The collective is the hindquarters of the revolution. It makes no pretence whatsoever in regard to the role of vanguard. Expect nothing from them. They are not your leaders. Leave them alone. The collective knows it will be the last to enter the new world.

The doubts people have about local action reveal how dependent they are on the glamour of mass politics. Everyone wants to project themselves on