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The heroism of battles is a secondary heroism, of killing not to die, to kill and die because they order him to kill and die.
The deserter is an infinitely more heroic man than the soldier, a former uniformed man, whom the machine of war transforms, annihilates, absorbs. See the essential and absolute differentiation that separates the operator from the soldier. The operator, in front of the machine of industry, the master, the conscious muscle, the brain: dominates, guides, subjugates, with the creative purpose of production, which is life.
The soldier in front of the cannon is brutalized, assimilated, automated, dehumanized, with the warrior end of destruction, which is death.
A deserter is a man who does not want to be a soldier, who does not want to be dehumanized, who wants to remain a man. And he is more heroic than the soldier because he does not want to stop being what he is, defending his personality, his quality of man against the whole society, which condemns him, from his preconception, and fierce legal point of view.
The law can shoot him: he will shoot a man who is an affront, he alone, without attitudes for the glory of the bronzes, with a simple and high courage, with the supreme and selfless heroism of one who knows fatally defeated without hope of damnation , Detested, defamed, but in spite of everything, against everything, affirming in its entirety only his self.
Written by Astrojildo Pereira.
A Plebe, (SP), year I, No. 4 (June 30, 1917)
Extracted from the book Anarchist tales: the anthology of libertarian prose in Brazil (1901-1935).
Translated by A-lex
Published in El Surco, nº7, September 2009
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