The destruction of the capitalist media (via raids, detournement, explosions, sabotage, guerilla theatre during bourgeois events, etc.) must be simultaneously accompanied by the development of a counter-culture, a revolutionary bohemia, an anarchist aesthetic. For this we need liberated printing presses, alternative gallery/performance spaces, experimental cafes, anarchist bookstores, the things that allow for an intellectual and radical community to grow. It is becoming increasingly evident that this may be impossible in the American metropolis. Gentrification has consistently destroyed every venture of this sort. The commune, an idea that has scarcely been explored by anti-statists in America since the 1840s, is an idea which must be articulated, developed, and acted on.

— Drunken Boat Manifesto