To Mr. J.R. Jones:
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A. The situationists were neither anarchists, Marxists, nor any one-sided ideological position/tendency since they, correctly, believed holding ideologies (i.e., dead, petrified thoughts) is alienating. They did critically synthesize elements of Hegelian-Marxian philosophy, psychoanalysis, Dada, and anarchy–for their theory/practice.
C. The critical use of situationist theory, or any actual self-critical and big-picture grasping revolutionary theory, doesn’t have to lead to paralysis. In fact, even large mass uprisings such as in France during May-June 1968 with millions of workers and students were partially inspired by situationist theory. If revolution is therapeutic, then revolutionary theory must begin at home. Situationist theory (not its half-assed reduction into an ideology of situationism) allows us to subvert ourselves as we subvert the world. Even small beginning steps in confronting our own daily complicity in this bad joke of a society are much more satisfying than apathy or being another robot for the most politically correct leader. Our own autonomous critical activity is ultimately full of more possibilities than the compromises and guilt-mongering of leftist ideologues (i.e., the residue of Leninist vanguard parties, “progressive” electoral parties, anarcho-syndicalists and other anarcho nostalgia/classicist purists, and other work fetishists). Humor helps in preventing ideological rigidity from forming.
