The false content and false unity produced by the collectivization of the problems of survival and by the neo-familial relations are no substitute for the precisions demanded by a coherent revolutionary practice based on rigorous theoretical and practical accord, or for the concrete mutual recognition which comes from passionate engagement in common projects. The collective is only an amelioration of isolation, and its dissimulation. They can get away with this only because they have nothing to coordinate but luke-warm imitations of revolutionary practice, such as their Burroughsian distortion of the subversive d tournement of advertisements, and their calls for global analysis. From Minnesota to the Mekong Delta the revolt is gaining in coherence. The point is not to pick up the pieces and patch it up, but to criticize it theoretically and practically.
Revolutionary theory is now the enemy of all revolutionary ideology, and knows it .
For selections from the movement critique drafts, see Critique of the New Left Movement .