I am not saying the ICE moment in our country is revolution waiting to happen, just that it provides the opportunity. This is because it pulls us into a shared practical problem, that forces us to think about how we organize social life, and forces us to put theory in action.

Once we are active, we realize that what we are fighting in the moment is bound to many other problems. We will become entangled within the problems consciously, as opposed to fending them off from a passive stance. Many people will be pulled into navigating social practice.

It doesn’t need to follow from someone declaring the goal of communism and starting the party. We know that once we retreat from the world, it can be hard to break the passivity. The reverse is true, too, that once we get moving, we might not so easily be able to retreat.

We will become absorbed into new active problems by way of fighting ICE, and consciously so, in ways that could fortuitously trap us in action. As awful as the thought of state repression is, it is also the predictable consequence of us trying to assert ourselves.

As soon as we assert ourselves, out come the batons. Our spilt blood will be a sign that we are living correctly. If we do the right thing, we will be attacked with violence. Our only choice, then, beyond cowering, is to invite (or agitate) new people into the process.

It just might be that cowering will lead us to violence, too, at this point. We must act in the direction of finding others and collaborating, while injecting theory into practice. We will then be in a position to declare to one another where we should focus our efforts.

To track the reality, we have to be in it. We have to feel that we are in it with others, and not just watching it on a TV screen. The TV screen will never give you more than a misleading appearance about reality. We have to know reality in our muscle memory.