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About the Authors

Nadia C. is a freelance wrioter and dilettante romantic of Eastern European dissent. The rest is secrets.

Gloria Cubana is an itinerant lover and clandestine poet raised in the American South. She's presently hard at work on her second book, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Gloria Cubana. She has also published a series of atlases and a travel guide entitled The Moon on $47 Million a Day.

Frederick Markatos Dixon, Eagle Scout, folk scientist, detective, keen intuition, intense love for peanut butter, maker of working infrasonic weapon, owner of two sets of clothes, four hundred pounds of tools, six US patents and one cat, retired from Arkansas kitty litter mine in 1992, lives in a shotgun shack on a Christmas tree farm, central North Carolina.

NietzsChe Guevara is a professor of philosophy and Latin American guerrilla warrior. His published works include Lifestyle Monarchism, or Anarcheology! and Plato Will Kill Us All.

Jane E. Humble is a recently graduated sorority sister from the American heartland. In addition to caring for her daughters and authoring children's books, she enjoys cooking, knitting, and grossly deviant sexual practices.

Paul F. Maul is a former teenage heartthrob, self-taught graphic artist, and car thief turned terrorist and assassin. Expect to hear more about him soon.

Stella Nera, renowned feminista freedom fighter and student of Sufi mysticism, is now years into a worldwide dérive.

Tristran Tzarathustra grew up in Zurich, Switzerland, in the same building that Lenin lived in during the first world war—about fifty paces from the Cabaret Voltaire at which Lenin was known to spend his time with the Dada anti-artists. Tristran is best known for his inflammatory work Do What Must Be Done.

Jeanette Winterson is a widely acclaimed British novelist and critic.

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The general has only eighty men, and the enemy five thousand. In his tent the general curses and weeps. Then he writes an inspired proclamation and homing pigeons shower copies over the enemy camp. Two hundred desert on foot to the general. There follows a skirmish which the general wins easily, and two regiments come over to his side. Three days later, the enemy has only eighty men and the general five thousand. The general writes another proclamation and seventy-nine more men join up with him. Only one enemy is left, surrounded by the army of the general, who waits in silence. The night passes and the enemy has not come over to his side. The general curses and weeps in his tent. At dawn the enemy slowly unsheathes his sword and advances on the general's tent. He goes in and looks at him. The army of the general disbands. The sun rises.

CrimethInc. "Inner Circle" - an invitation

WANTED:

Creative independent men and women, tired of being exhausted by the trivial details of modern survival, fed up with the misery of modern entertainment, no longer confused by the distractions of the mass media... not content with limiting their freedom, their lives, to their so-called "free time." People who prefer idealism to realism, and reality to ideology.

To become full-time revolutionaries. NOT armchair revolutionaries, not ivory tower revolutionaries, not week-end revolutionaries. And not "professional" revolutionaries, either: rather than making a business out of "revolution," they must make revolution their business. Men and women who will not allow their efforts to win back their freedom to become just another job, who are ready to live according to their desires around the clock.

Punk Rockers, Activists— don't be content with living in a world of your own making once a week, when a band plays or a protest takes place. Demand that excitement every day, demand that self-determination every morning when you wake up. Ask yourself: do you want the symbols of rebellion, or rebellion itself?

Musicians, Artists— seek not to "make a living from your art," as any worker who sells his labor (and thus his creativity) for money does. Seek to make art your way of living—or, even better, make living your art. We must use our creativity not to make more representations of reality, but to transform reality itself. To concentrate our vast abilities on anything less would be to cheat ourselves of a world.
Life is contagious, you know: if you want to make others feel it, you must live it to the fullest yourself, so that it will call out to them through you. If you would make art to share with them, you must first share yourself, give yourself to life and passion...

Human Beings— Look at the world around us; it is a world that we have created. We transformed the old world into this one—but why this one? Is this the world we would have chosen, if we had considered in advance the question of what the best of all possible worlds might be? But before you despair, think—we created this world, it is we who make it up. Could we not make another world out of it, then, if we preferred?

JOIN US. We have chosen to live our lives for ourselves, to make each day an adveture rather than a ritual—to pursue our dreams at any cost. Perhaps we can transform the world around us, in the same way that we transform our own lives. But this transforming, too, must be an adventure... for our revolution is, itself, the very joy we take in it. Write and offer your life if you dare.

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