[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.01,0:00:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many draw back in front of affinity. Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.85,0:00:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is in fact\Na lot easier and less demanding to sign up Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.50,0:00:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to something, be it an organization, a permanent\Nassembly or Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.81,0:00:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an environment and to take up and reproduce formal\Ncharacteristics, Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.21,0:00:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than undertaking a long and never\Nexhausted research for comrades with whom Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.21,0:00:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to share\Nideas, analysis and eventual projects. Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.67,0:00:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because affinity is exactly this: a reciprocal knowledge Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.71,0:00:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between comrades, shared analysis that lead to perspectives Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.09,0:00:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of action. Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.42,0:00:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Affinity is therefore directed\Non one hand towards theoretical Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.80,0:00:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deepening and on the other towards\Nintervention in social conflictuality. Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.94,0:01:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It aspires to the sharing of ideas and methods,\Nand it Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.82,0:01:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not have as a goal an infinite growth. Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.56,0:01:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some\Ncomrades, one of the main preoccupations, Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.22,0:01:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though often well hidden, seems to remain Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.13,0:01:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the number. Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.45,0:01:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many are we? Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.91,0:01:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What should we do to be\Nmore? Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.69,0:01:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the polarization on such a question and\Nfrom the constatation that today we aren’t Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.86,0:01:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many,\Ngiven by the fact that many others do not Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.03,0:01:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,share our ideas\Nderiving the Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.42,0:01:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conclusion\Nthat we should, to grow numerically, avoid Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.62,0:01:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,putting\Ntoo hard of an accent on certain ideas. Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.72,0:01:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Affinity is not the same thing as friendship. Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.92,0:01:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of\Ncourse the two do not exclude each other, Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.94,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The search for affinity occurs on an interpersonal\Nlevel. Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.03,0:01:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not a collective event, a group affair,\Nwhere Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.85,0:01:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is always easier to follow than to think\Nfor oneself. Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.20,0:01:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The deepening of affinity is evidently a matter\Nof Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.10,0:01:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought and action, but in the end affinity\Nis not the Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.38,0:02:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strictly about carrying out an action together,\Nbut rather a Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.52,0:02:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting point from which to then pass to\Naction. Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.10,0:02:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is true that the search and the\Ndeepening of affinity require a lot of time Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.05,0:02:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and energy,\Nand that therefore it is not possible to generalize Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.49,0:02:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it to\Nall comrades. Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.03,0:02:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The anarchist movement of a country, of\Na city or even of a neighbourhood cannot become Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.25,0:02:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one\Nbig affinity group. Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.65,0:02:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not about enlarging different\Naffinity groups with more comrades, Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.69,0:02:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to make possible the multiplication\Nof autonomous affinity groups. Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.62,0:02:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The search, the elaboration and the deepening\Nof affinity leads to small groups of Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.58,0:02:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comrades that know each other,\Nshare analysis and pass together to action.