Some Reflections 11 Years After the Death of Comrade Sebastian Oversluij, Pelao Angry

“Throw yourself into freedom, that’s my proposal!”
The Knife and the Word, Pelao Angry, Written/Song.

On December 11, 2013, comrade Sebastián Oversluij Seguel “Pelao Angry” was killed in an action/expropriation of a Banco Estado in the commune of Pudahuel, at the hands of a security guard of capital. In his life he carried out various anti-authoritarian political projects and initiatives, including: publishing projects, musical ensembles, libraries, action groups and propaganda. Since his death, he has been vindicated for the creative expression of anarchist ideas through music, drawing, writing, conflict and the constant tension to achieve coherence between word and action. From an anti-speciesist, anti-civilizational and nihilistic vision, he was a defender of propaganda by the deed and direct action.

11 years have passed since his departure, and from our present of struggle we remember the comrade, distancing ourselves from memory as a mere act of remembering, but rather, connecting with Pelao Angry in the current validity of expropriation as a form of struggle against the capitalist system. Historically, the action of expropriating the capital of the powerful has meant a means by which the exploited have recovered autonomy, throwing themselves into freedom to move towards an individual and collective existence outside the logics of wage exploitation.

The history of social movements, revolutionary organizations, anarchist groups and individuals and conscious exploited people, account for the innumerable examples in which assault, expropriation, theft and recovery, allowed access to what the political and business class has denied us. Whether as a vindication of the right to leisure, a fight against accumulation or as a means to sustain revolutionary projects and processes, the truth is that it constitutes an act that has accompanied the struggle against the commodification of all forms of life: human, animal and the earth. In this territory, the recent past accounts for the actions of distribution of the goods of the powerful in towns, land occupations, universities, schools and in rural sectors.

To take from the rich and give them to the exploited, as an exercise in subversion of power relations. However, our anarchic history connects Pelao Angry with the recoveries and assaults that comrades once executed: Durruti with the solidarios, Rosigna, Di giovanni, Tamayo Gavilan, Jacob, among many others. We do not fetishize or romanticize one political practice over another, we are emphatic in pointing out that within the multiformity of our acts and actions, expropriation is one more, among many, where the anarchist revolutionary proposal comes to life.

11 years after the death of comrade Sebastian Oversluij Seguel, we know that the conditions of power established by the State, its defenders and perpetuators, are sustained and reproduced day by day, making it more than necessary to put anarchist revolutionary projects into practice. From there we also connect with Pelao Angry, because the commodification of life, the exploitation of some over others, the annihilation of the earth and non-human forms of life, is sharpened, deepened and reproduced without equal, cutting the horizons of living an existence outside the logics of power and capital, in short, Nothing has changed and if it has, it is to maintain this criminal and murderous social order.

The revolt of 2019 made it clear to us that the institutional path of change and the capitalist model are not the option to live freely. The constituent processes that came from the pact of the Chilean political class are nothing more than the reconfiguration of the ways in which the powerful maintain their privileges at the cost of submission, death, misery, indebtedness and repression.

We do not intend to impose a single truth, much less a single way of remembering, as anarchist collectivities and individuals, we are aware of the approaches we have with the ideas that Angry held in life. For us, bringing it to the present is to open dialogue, tension and the act of rethinking that the anarchist proposal of self-organization and struggle is not only possible but necessary, that it is still alive, and that despite the death and confinement of comrades these are part of our political proposal of an anarchism without adjectives, but which nevertheless bets on constant revolt and conflict against all forms of domination and power.

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THEFT IS JUSTIFIED!

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December 11, 2024

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