Atassa: Readings in Eco-Extremism

186 Pages·2016·8.79 MB·English

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Atassa #1
2016
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Presentation the editors
The Flower Growing Out of the Underworld:
An Introduction to Eco-extremism
Abe Cabrera 3
The spilling ofblood on the paths of"absolute truth"
Orkelesh 13
Apostles and Heretics John Jacobi 15
ITS:The Invisible Menace Rc;i.trcsi(\11 35
Sighs Lunas de abril 43
Lessons Left by the Ancients:
The Battle of Little Ilig Horn Rl;i.trcsi()n 47
The Return of the Warrior
Ramon Elani 53
Atassa: Lessons of the Creek War (1813-1814)
Abe Cabrera 77
The Seris, the Eco-extremists, and Nahualism
Hast Hax 105
(Roma Infernetto-"Shit World")
To Profane and Devour
A member of the Memento
Mori Nihilist Sect 111
Rcgrcsi6n #3 Editorial 115
Indiscriminate Anarchists Seminatore 119
Today XXV//X 141
Surviving Civilization:
Lessons from the Double Lives of Eco-extremists
Rc,"?rcsh)11 145
To the Mountains Lunas de abril 153
Kaczynski's Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How;
A Critical Assessment S. 159
The Singing River anon 177

Presentation
Atassa is the Muskogee word for "war club." The atassa was the
symbol of the Red Sticks, a faction within the Muskogee or
Creek nation that from 1813 to 1814 fought against the en­
croachment of white settlers on their lands in what is now the
states of Georgia and Alabama in the present-day United States.
For us, it is a symbol of a \Var that came too late, too late to save
their sacred ground and rhythm of life, too late to fight the mass
of invaders who would transform the land into something unrec­
ognizable. Nevertheless. the war was fought, because their instincts,
and arguably the land itself, demanded it.
Eco-extremism has no presence in the United States or in
the English-speaking world. It started in Mexico as an illegalist
tendency, not at all concerned with proselytism or popularity, and
has since spread to other countries to the South and in a cer-
tain form to Europe. Those involved in this journal are thus not
eco-extremists, and we don't advocate that anyone consider this
journal an exhortation to action or advocacy for illegality. Like
the corridos (ballads) also coming from the South celebrating the
actions of figures of the drug trade, we are here to "tell it like it is,"
not changing anything or condemning any of these actions since
we don't find that attitude particularly helpful. Like the narco­
corrido, our only message is: "This exists, and you have to think
about it, whether you like it or not."
We hope that our little labor will serve to inform and inspire
a different perspective in the Anglophone reader.
With Wild Nature on our side.
the editors

The Flower Growing
Out of the Underworld:
An Introduction to Eco-extremism
Abe Cabrera
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutcm. (The one hope of the con­
quered is to not hope for salvation.)
--Virgil, 171c Aeneid
lf death comes we will keep destroying things i11 hell; di.�i;:u ting world, I
s
will laugh as I see you falling, i11 this eternal co1�frontatio11 ...
--Eleventh Communique of the
Individualists Tending Toward the Wild, 2016
Eco-extremism is one of the newest schools of thought in our
time, but more than a school of thought, it is a plan of action, an
attitude of hostility, and a rejection of all that has come before it
in techno-industrial society. Born out of various radical ideologies
such as animal liberation, insurrectionary anarchism, anarcho­
primitivism, and the neo-Luddism ofTheodore Kaczynski, it has
germinated and sprouted forth into something entirely other:
into a love poem to violence and criminality; a radical ecologi­
cal vision where hope and humanism are overcome by the barrel
of a gun, the explosion of the incendiary device, and the knife
stalking human prey in the darkness. All of its true adherents are
currently unknown. It is not an ideology that was formed in the
academy or even in alternative political spaces. Its writings can
only be found (some would say ironically) on anonymous sites
on the Internet. Eco-extremism was formed in the shadows, and
will remain there, a clandestine threat until all eco-extremists are
captured or killed ... that is, until others take their place.
Shortly after I wrote my essay in Ritual Magazine, "Towards
Savagery: Recent Developments in Eco-Extremist Thought in
Mexico," the main group described in that essay, Reacci6n Salvaje
(Wild Reaction) disbanded (in August 2015), citing a new stage of
their struggle and development. Many of the websites that I used
for my research also went silent or announced their end. Nev-
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