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This question is aimed at Brandon and anyone else who might be involved in a Surrealist Group... how did you meet your local comrades? How could I find fellow surrealists in my area? How do you participate in the revolutionary struggle? Thanks.
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Re: How Surrealists Groups form
Sat, November 18, 2006 - 4:01 PMIn Portland we actually met via various forums on the Internet. Perhaps it was just chance that we all lived in Portland. I don't know of any surrealists in Philly (maybe Joseph Joblonski, who participates with the Chicago group, is there?). As for participating in revolutionary struggle, I think simply being a "surrealist" is revolutionary -- follow your desires, passions, and searching for the Marvelous -- but all the members of the surrealist group have other affiliations. One is a member of the IWW, I also identify as an anarchist, and a third member is well read in situationist-communist-anarchist theory. I think our original idea was to bring surrealist ideas to Portland's radical community, and perhaps that how, as surrealists, we are participating in revolutionary struggle.
By the way, for anyone in Portland, the Portland Surrealist Group will be having a table at the Portland Radical Book Fair at Liberty Hall
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Re: How Surrealists Groups form
Wed, November 22, 2006 - 7:05 AMThanks Brandon. I guess these things just happen in an organic way.
Some years back I participated in the anarchist scene in Philly (and was part of the local NEFAC collective). I have very mixed feelings about it. Overall I think the contemporary anarchist movement is a very insular subculture, where 90% of the activity is aimed at other anarchists/ activists. I think alot of anarchists/ activists take on an air of self-importance about their subculture which indicates a serious disconnect from the world around them. If a surrealist group could form in my area, I would rather that it stand on its own feet and avoid becoming just another accessory to the radical ghetto. That might, however, be far easier said than done, considering how social conditions very much compel radicals of any stripe to retreat from the public and look inward, and I don't mean to criticize what you might be doing in any way.
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Re: How Surrealists Groups form
Sat, November 18, 2006 - 7:43 PMI got made homeless and found all these drunken scotsmen and Irish Travellers
