From the “Second Grade Strategy Manual”
Relevant discourse is the result of actively coordinating and working together. It consists of what makes strategic sense in a certain context combined with what’s related to it but is articulated and expressed outside of the immediate situation. This means that it’s a connection between the strategic line, the analysis of the situation, and the manifestation of this understanding in the wider peripheries of struggle.
In our Second Grade discussions at the Center for Especifismo Studies (CES), we’ve come to understand discourse-practice as the connection between theory and action, the unity between means and ends. A consistent discourse-practice helps to resolve theoretical problems between short and long-term objectives, as well as between ideology and tactics.
It’s also important to explain what we mean when we talk about “a process of rupture”. It refers to a series of movements and events aimed at destructuring the system and establishing a new popular organization of society that we call libertarian socialism. This concept is related to strategy and to political organization because it orients the revolutionary project toward direct confrontation and struggle with the forces of capital. To put it another way: we don’t think it’s enough for us to only change ourselves personally, locally, or culturally.
This leads us to the conclusion that a liberatory social force is the capacity to make a strategic discourse into a reality, to act strategically in a way that makes sense to others. We see social force as the potential for carrying out the revolutionary project to its intended goal. This requires planning, acting, and reflecting in a productive and progressing way that nurtures the momentum of social movements.
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