The penultimate daily excerpt from Cold World:

In the realm of the drives, the hierarchy of effectiveness of protest and resistance in relation to unpleasure is inverted. For the helpless infant resistance to hunger is futile, as motor action is powerless to remove the displeasure arising from its famishment. Instead, it must raise its voice in protest, in order to attract the attention of someone who can provide it with what it needs. It happens that the world, and especially the world of middle-class West German citizens in 1968, provides many opportunities for cathexis, the connection of a drive-stimulus with some object that has the power to relieve it, to draw off its energies and dissipate them elsewhere. To live well in the world it is necessary to be able to form such cathexes between the drives and worldly objects: to love, Freud says, and work.

The world of the “urban guerilla” is a world in which such opportunities for cathexis are held at bay; where the governing principles of love and work are replaced by a single alternative principle: that of combat. One does not petition hopefully for what one needs; one violently expropriates, in order that one might have in abundance. One does not stand patiently outside the prison, begging for the release of those held within: one takes hostages, and bargains with their lives. Above all, one does not negotiate, but issues unilateral demands and manifestos, statements of requirements intended to guide action.