Dedicated to all wild spirits facing state violence. They can take paper and books away, but they will never extinguish the fire in our hearts.

Translated from German // Summer 2023 // 261 pages

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Table of Contents

-Of Human Experimentation, Genetics and the Subjugation of Humans: A Foray into the World of Medicine

-The Destruction of Individual and Collective Healing Knowledge and the Rise of Medicine

-Inoculated: A Small Collection of Somewhat Different Stories about Bacilli, Vaccinations and their Social Contexts

-The Cybernetic Eugenics of Reproductive Medicine: A Look at the Recent Efforts to Normalize Trisomy 21 Prenatal Tests

-Rebellion in Times of the Curfew

-If Not Now, When? Let’s Cut the Radio Network of Technological Domination

-Quarantine… Thoughts on Incarceration, Technology, and Real-World Relationships

-Cities with Technological Totalitarianism Close to Their Heart

-The IAA in Munich – A Post-Fascist Forum of Green Capitalism and its Technocrats

-Climate Change is the Fantasy of a Computational Machine! On the Origins of a Military-Political Instrument of Control and its Resulting Green Techno-Scientific Totalitarianism

-Climate Change Simulation Game: This Scenario is Presented to You by the Club of Rome and its Techno-Capitalist Philanthropist Friends

-Will-o’-the-Wisps: About my Dissatisfaction with Some Tendencies and Perspectives in the Anti-Civilizational Debate

-Radical Left, I’m Breaking Up with You!

-Everything in Perfect Order

-Fragments for an Insurgent Struggle against Militarism and the World that Needs it

Preface

From February 2019 to September 2021, “Anarchistisches Wochenblatt Zündlumpen” [“Zündlumpen Anarchist Periodical”] was published in Munich, at first on a weekly basis, and at increasingly greater intervals over time, but also with an ever increasing page count. It was never really clear whether Zündlumpen was more of a street paper or a discussion paper for anarchists – it included elements of both approaches, depending on the issue, sometimes veering more in one direction and sometimes the other. The texts were both introductory and in-depth, new and old, translations, analysis and commentary on current local events as well as happenings from further afield, communiqués, instructions, discussion texts and polemics as well as news from Munich and all over the world, from torched e-scooters in a Munich park to prison riots in Italy, along with photos of graffiti – the “Graffiti of the Week” – were wildly compiled.

The Munich paper underwent quite a few developments throughout its existence. Apart from several radical changes in design and format, it evolved from a weekly local anarchist paper encompassing various leftist tendencies which covered one A3 page, into a discussion paper of dozens to sometimes even hundreds of pages in length, starting more or less at the beginning of “covid”. It was notorious for its combative style, which formulated a radical critique of the covid measures and all of their supporters, whether they call themselves anarchist or not, and it reinforced and developed this critique over time with ever more detailed and in-depth analyses.

These issues of Zündlumpen reacted to the events that rapidly unfolded in the course of covid: the lockdown, mask and test mandates, the curfew, and the contact ban. They highlighted different aspects of the covid frenzy, and named, analyzed, and (verbally) attacked the institutions driving the measures and the panic: science and especially medicine, but also statistics, the media and the press, the state and the increasingly fascist police, digitalization and the expansion of 5G, the general “smartification” of life, civilization. In the issues that focused on covid, Zündlumpen gathered its own analyses, contributions to discussions, and polemics, as well as translations of anarchist texts from other countries. It takes up moments of revolt and resistance against the covid measures, from prison revolts to uprisings in Lebanon, to sabotages such as the radio antenna arsons in several European countries, as well as the riotous parties that repeatedly broke out in many places.

Voluntary submission and moralism is also a theme, especially that of the radical left and the (so-called) anarchists wallowing within it. In many parts of Germany, anarchists are closely connected with the radical left which publicly stood more or less united behind the covid measures since the beginning, while denouncing people who rebelled against them as “wingnut” and “fascist,” and also actively organizing against them. If older issues of Zündlumpen had already proclaimed its break with the left (see “Radical Left, I’m Breaking Up with You!”), it was battling (perhaps somewhat excessively) the conformism of the radical left and its defamation campaigns, which insulted the newspaper as being “social Darwinist,” “conspiracy theorist,” and the like.

In addition to covid, which took on a certain emphasis in Zündlumpen, the newspaper simultaneously dealt with other topics which are, of course, inseparable: militarism and police, psychiatry, repression, technology and cybernetics, genetic engineering and transhumanism, individualism and egoism, morality and behavioral control. It explored the omnipresent question of how we as anarchists want to act and deal with each other, while continuing to welcome revolts and acts of sabotage, and engaging debates across the issues.

One issue, #080, stands out, which, in contrast to the usual format that combines analyses, translations, news and commentaries, gathers exclusively analytical texts around the theme of “civilization”. This mainly involves translations of anarchist anti-civilization texts primarily from the USA (including texts from “Green Anarchy”, “Bædan” and “Killing King Abacus”), but also from the French group “Os Cangaceiros”. This issue subjects time, numbers, agriculture, work, science, machines, gender, domestication, and civilization itself to critical illumination and fundamental questioning.

In September 2021, Zündlumpen was then discontinued after a total of 85 issues out of concerns about repression – the last issues appeared roughly every 2 months and were proudly comprised of 150-170 pages. Zündlumpen has not only always refused to mince words and was not known for its non-violent communication style nor for its willingness to compromise, which brought it some enemies besides the state, but also eventually attracted the attention of the secret service with its militant stance and clear advocacy of revolt and attack on the institutions of power in the here and now. In fact, a preliminary investigation was opened against various people accused of publishing Zündlumpen, the outcome of which is still pending at the moment of writing this preface.

It’s not easy to compile a selection for an anthology from the plethora of texts stretching across 85 issues. We concentrated on analyses and articles that first appeared in Zündlumpen and that we consider exciting outside a German-language context, and translated them into English. We placed a certain emphasis on articles that revolve around the topic of “covid”. In addition to several articles that deal directly with covid measures, social isolation, and digitalization, we also included several more basic texts about medicine and its history. This collection is rounded out by analyses of technology, smartification and green capitalism, policing and militarism, as well as some of the most beautiful “Graffiti of the Week”.

Except for one text, we did not include the debates with the radical left here for reasons of space, but also because the other topics are closer to our hearts and these discussions seemed very specific to the German-speaking context. Other discussions, such as the debate about communiqués and fixed organizational structures, about property, about individualism and egoism, would also have fit well in this anthology, but we had to draw a line. Unfortunately, we also excluded the many news items which give Zündlumpen its character as a newspaper, the translations, communiqués, poems, discussions, and reprints of texts published elsewhere. On the one hand, they would burst the pages of this book format, and on the other these selections lose their urgency and relevance outside of the temporal and spatial frame of reference in which they appeared. Many of these selections can also be found in English in other publications and on Internet platforms. Many of the articles were translated for the first time for this compilation, some were already published in English by Zündlumpen itself, and two translations of “Maelstrom” were revised and republished.

We consider the texts published here to be exciting contributions to more precise understandings of some of the pillars of the society in which we are forced to live today, to recognizing pitfalls and identifying enemies in our constant search for the various paths towards freedom. With the humble hope of fueling discussions that sharpen ideas and foster complicity, we hope you enjoy reading.

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