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Many draw back in front of affinity.

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It is in fact
a lot easier and less demanding to sign up

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to something, be it an organization, a permanent
assembly or

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an environment and to take up and reproduce formal
characteristics,

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rather than undertaking a long and never
exhausted research for comrades with whom

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to share
ideas, analysis and eventual projects.

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Because affinity is exactly this: a reciprocal knowledge

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between comrades, shared analysis that lead to perspectives

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of action.

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Affinity is therefore directed
on one hand towards theoretical

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deepening and on the other towards
intervention in social conflictuality.

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It aspires to the sharing of ideas and methods,
and it

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does not have as a goal an infinite growth.

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For some
comrades, one of the main preoccupations,

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even though often well hidden, seems to remain

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the number.

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How many are we?

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What should we do to be
more?

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From the polarization on such a question and
from the constatation that today we aren’t

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many,
given by the fact that many others do not

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share our ideas
deriving the

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conclusion
that we should, to grow numerically, avoid

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putting
too hard of an accent on certain ideas.

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Affinity is not the same thing as friendship.

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Of
course the two do not exclude each other,

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The search for affinity occurs on an interpersonal
level.

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It is not a collective event, a group affair,
where

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it is always easier to follow than to think
for oneself.

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The deepening of affinity is evidently a matter
of

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thought and action, but in the end affinity
is not the

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strictly about carrying out an action together,
but rather a

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starting point from which to then pass to
action.

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It is true that the search and the
deepening of affinity require a lot of time

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and energy,
and that therefore it is not possible to generalize

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it to
all comrades.

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The anarchist movement of a country, of
a city or even of a neighbourhood cannot become

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one
big affinity group.

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It is not about enlarging different
affinity groups with more comrades,

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but to make possible the multiplication
of autonomous affinity groups.

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The search, the elaboration and the deepening
of affinity leads to small groups of

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comrades that know each other,
share analysis and pass together to action.