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In march of 2007 Caudillo Chávez affirmed in a speech "The unions should not be autonomous... we must end with that..." '...the use of scabs "for reasons of proven necessity" in order to break strikes and work stoppages, a practice that has become habitual in so-called "Bolivarian Venezuela." The role of Venezuelan anarchists in this moment of fracture of Bolivarian hegemony is to participate, accompany, and radicalize the conflicts, from below and with the people, and in this way to stimulate the recovery of the belligerent autonomy of the social movements. They must also become actively involved in the construction of a different, revolutionary alternative to the inter-bourgeois conflict for the control of the oil revenues that has engulfed the political scene in recent years, fighting the Bolivarian bourgeoisie in power with the same impetus as the potential rearticulations of those political parties it has displaced. In this way we walk, as always, without giving any concession to power and having our old values (self-management, direct action, anticapitalism and mutual aid, among others) as a bright horizon...FROM Translated by Dan Knutson Original Spanish article: http://www.nodo50.org/tierraylibertad/4articulo.html Shock-communism Many of us incorrectly ascribe more power and vision to the elites than they actually possess, pretending that they hatch shock-and-awe treatments upon us after careful planning from their boardrooms and country clubs. In doing so we simplify the nature of society’s crisis. And not just our societies...shock-communism stole the lives of millions of poor peasants demonized by bourgeois Marxist ideology. The massive crimes of shock-communism preceed and exceed even the Holocaust. This is where 'anti-capitalism' falls at the first hurdle. Lipstick hardly improves the appearence of this pig. And were capitalism to magically dissappear tomorrow then what would stop all the actually existing Marxist regimes from hatching shock-and-awe treatments for us after careful planning from their politburo's and dachas? Its not paranoid conspiracy theory if they are out to get you - and its not red-baiting when they are quite proud to be red-fascist dictators. Take the Castro brothers...please. Its true that capital and empire have so over-exploited and destroyed the world’s resources and peoples that we have reached a crisis moment in which we either will make a rapid transition away from capitalism and the nation state, or else we will be nothing better than zombies. But that doesn't mean a risky transition - that is one where Marxism makes gains and even more poor people are enslaved and die. We can't oppose all wars so long as slavery exists - but we can oppose all dumb wars. And the inconvenient fact remains that fastest way to lift masses out of poverty remains capitalism. Remember when todays 'anti-capitalist' was yesterdays ' anti-globalization activist' - both equally power-friendly ways of marginalizing anarchy. What then are the solutions? We offer no grandious narrative. No holistic totality. We only offer our disturbing recognition of these wedgie problems, and hope that if others face reality we will collectively find a way to step back from the brink, while expanding on those just and sustainable parts of libertarian socialism. Not authoritarian socialism ( Marxism) and no longer - any more - the fatally discredited democratic socialism of conventional representational politics. ( Sear ' Circulation of the elites') The reason radical populism is - and should be - appealing to anarchists and other progressives is that its partisans focus in hard on the structural aspects of domination, exploitation, and inherent crisis that are integral to the God-State. No scapegoat Kulaks (or Jews) required. All you need are property owners who invest in workplaces, bosses that exploit workers, and cops that live to enforce resource extraction and relations of exploitation. And these surely exist almost everywhere nowadays. ( For exceptions that prove this rule sear ' Primitivism') The intelligent indigenous, peasantry and proletariat of the world must take us all for fools the more we beat on this hollow misleading 'anti-capitalist' drum... and so they will continue to muddle along with all their various neo-labor style parties - I don't blame them - because I think anarchists have forgotten their revolutionary subject we get back to the basics of anarchism - the sooner, the better. Stirner, Proudhon and Bakunin forever! To hell with that bourgeois, sexist, racist Herr Karl Marx! I believe in only one thing: anarchy; but I do not believe in anarchy enough to want to force it upon anyone. ALL POWER TO THE ANARCHISTS! They are the only ones with the slightest clue what to do with it. Post a comment in response: |
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