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| notes = ''ROEL VAN DUYN{{s}} introduction to the Provo point of view appeared in the first issue of ''Provo'' on ''12''th July, ''1965.'' It was translated for us by [[Author:Hugo le Comte|Hugo le Comte]].
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'''This is Provo'''

'''[[Author:Roel van Duyn|ROEL VAN DUYN]]'''

{{sc|Provo}} is a monthly for anarchists, {{w|provos|Provo_(movement)}}, {{w|beathniks|Beat_Generation}}, layhabouts, tinkers, jailhbirds, saints, sorcerers, pacifists, charlatans, philosophers, germ carriers, {{w|major domos|Majordomo}}, happeners, vegetarians, {{w|syndicalists|Syndicalism}}, hustlers, incendiaries, marionettes, infant teachers, and of course we must not forget the men of the {{w|Internal Security Service|General_Intelligence_and_Security_Service}}.

{{tab}}{{sc|provo}} opposes capitalism, communism, fascism, bureaucracy, militarism, snobbism, professionalism, dogmatism and authoritarianism.

{{tab}}{{sc|provo}} feels it is faced with two choices: either desperate resistance or passive withering away. {{sc|provo}} calls for resistance wherever it is possible. {{sc|provo}} realises that in the end it will be the loser. However, it will not forfeit the chance to thoroughly provoke this society once more.

{{tab}}{{sc|provo}} regards anarchism as the inspirational source for resistance. {{sc|provo}} wants to renew anarchism and spread it among the young.

{{tab}}Why is {{sc|provo}} called {{sc|provo}}? Are we negative or positive? What is our norm? What are our ways?

{{tab}}{{sc|provo}} = {{sc|provo}} because {{sc|provo}}-behaviour is for us the one and only acceptable way in this society. To climb the social ladder and serve in a job means contributing towards coming nuclear destructions, towards capitalism and militarism. It means collaboration with the authorities and their cunning carrot-on-a-stick: TV. Call us anti-professionalists. We cannot perceive of a {{qq|job}} as the popular careerists like to call it, which has not as its aim the prolongation of the state of emergency in which we live. The worker manufactures the inferior {{qq|desirable objects}} from which the capitalist extorts his {{qq|increasing returns}}. The civil servant keeps the records of the victims of bureaucracy. The inventions of technicians and learned men are immediately misused for military ends.

{{tab}}The asocial {{sc|provo}} is the only ray of hope. Its activity is a spoke in the wheel of {{qq|progress}} which thunders ahead at such speed that the bomb under the rails is not spotted.

{{tab}}We know that the attitude of the {{sc|provo}}, a beatnik type we are told in Dr. {{l|Buikhuizen|https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Buikhuisen}}{{s}} doctoral thesis, is not yet perfect.<ref>{{qq|The movement had its origin in a group of anarchists, prominent among whom was a young man Roel van Duyn. A Dr. {{l|Buikhuizen|https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Buikhuisen}} wrote an article on the discontented and sometimes violent youngsters. He called them provocateurs or {{q|provos}} who were pinpricking authority to find out its real faith. When a year ago another group of anarchists emerged, among them van Duyn, they took the name {{q|Provos}} for themselves and their magazine.}}{{dash}}''{{w|Manchester Guardian|The_Guardian}}'', 18.6.66.</ref> Buikhuizen says: {{qq|Provo-ism is not an exponent of resistance against present society; {{sc|provos}} do not find their jobs unimportant; {{sc|provo}} is for them a recreation.}}

{{p|230}}{{tab}}But we propagate provo-ism as resistance against this society. We hope that it will become clear to the {{sc|provo}} that his {{qq|job}} degrades him to a cog in the time bomb which this society is. We plead for full-time provocation. We wish to promote a development from the formula {{qq|{{sc|provo}} equals provocative beatnik}} to {{qq|{{sc|provo}} equals anarchist, dangerous to the State}}.

{{tab}}Today the {{sc|provo}} is not uselessly occupied in provoking the police, rioting on the {{w|Dam|Dam_Square}}, throwing {{w|crackers|Firecracker}} in letter boxes.

{{tab}}Tomorrow he has to face the police consciously as an enemy, making an assault on the {{w|palace|Royal_Palace_of_Amsterdam}} on the Dam, and finally placing bombs in the letter box of the {{w|Interior Security Service|General_Intelligence_and_Security_Service}}.

{{tab}}Because only the young, idling and provoking masses in the streets can still be set in motion, they are open to resistance, not the so-called working class which is tied hand and foot to the social system. The {{sc|provos}} form the last revolutionary class in the {{w|Netherlands|Netherlands}}.

{{tab}}We denounce capitalism, bureaucracy, militarism, and the inevitable political-military collapse of {{w|World War III|World_War_III}}. We acclaim resistance, freedom and creativity. In other words, we repudiate the positive and affirm the negative. Hence we love hatred and hate love. Our one norm is: let everyone in the name of his own existence wage war against the outside world to the very end.

{{tab}}We cannot convince the masses. We hardly want to. How one can put one{{s}} trust in this apathetic, dependent, spiritless horde of cockroaches, beetles and ladybirds, is incomprehensible. However, our late {{w|Domela Nieuwenhuis|Ferdinand_Domela_Nieuwenhuis}}, {{w|De Ligt|Bart_de_Ligt}}, and others have tried, and their posterity still try. It was not successful, it is still not successful, and it won{{t}} be in the future. We are turning the emergency into a virtue by provoking these masses. Our ways will not be prophetic or idealistic, but simply provocative. We are fully aware of the ultimate uselessness of our activities, we willingly believe that neither {{w|Johnson|Lyndon_B._Johnson}} nor {{w|Kosygin|Alexei_Kosygin}} will listen to us, and this is precisely the reason why we are free in what we do. We realise that a demonstration is senseless in the end. Therefore it is vital to make the best of a demonstration, for otherwise the demonstration would be useless, not only objectively, not only absolutely, but also relatively. We dare to say: demonstrate for demonstration{{s}} sake, provoke for provocation{{s}} sake. Resist for resistance{{s}} sake!<ref>This first issue of {{sc|provo}} (which was seized by the police because of its article on explosives) included a report on police violence when Provos placed a bunch of flowers at the foot of the {{w|National Commemoration Monument|National_Monument_(Amsterdam)}} in protest at {{w|Claus von Amsberg|Prince_Claus_of_the_Netherlands}}{{s}} visit to {{w|Amsterdam|Amsterdam}} before his marriage to {{w|Princess Beatrix|Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands}}.</ref>

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