France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - IAL #103 - Anti-fascism, Confusionism a danger to the struggles (fr, it, pt)

France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - IAL #103 -
Anti-fascism, Confusionism a danger to the struggles (fr, it, pt)
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We have already largely exposed the context of crises we are currently experiencing. 
Course economic crisis with a continuous increase of misery and insecurity but also 
ecological crisis with the scarcity of available resources, social crisis with widespread 
social cannibalism and political crisis finally with, among others, a breakthrough 
confusionism. ---- It seems important to focus on the political confusionism gaining 
ground every day. What political confusionism? The political confusionism is that 
conservative and reactionary currents, belonging to the sphere of the extreme right, 
ownership and use of thematic usually carried by currents located opposite of the 
political spectrum. They therefore invest the land struggles of their opponent · e · s 
policies (anti-capitalism, ecology, criticism of religions ...), using a rhetoric that is 
close to them, to serve actually their own ideology.

Confusionism develops on a political culture, sociological and historical low, and the 
idea that "politics" refers only to the actions of the ruling classes, leading individuals 
to proclaim "apolitical". Confusionism also feeds the emotional communities maintained by 
the news industry and culture, creating a union of viewers and spectators on various facts 
and dramas.

Review confusionism no arguments or explanations does not hinder its development and the 
dangers that result. This type of criticism may instead result in withdrawal of some 
militant · e · s · e · s or, in the same way, a distance other militant · e · s or 
sympathizer · e · s who see multiply releases he / Ellles not necessarily understand. We 
must make the difference between that and those who are confused, or appear to join, and 
those who organize it. Uniformly reject is not reasonable, we all trajectories, 
sensitivities and histories.

It is the deliberate and organized confusion need to attack us mainly by clarifying how we 
wear our ideas and struggles, and highlighting speech under the confusionism on these 
issues. We will try here to make an initial assessment (non-exhaustive) preferred by 
professionals thematic confusionists. It is each time to highlight what we consider 
confusionists reasoning or practices, and explain that if we also address these issues, it 
is for different reasons, with claims and a radically different vision of society.

Overview of thematic confusionists

The anti-muddled: the anti-word is often taken over by the far right. It is to criticize 
the system for case heard tou · te · s libertarian, but how? We usually notice a denial of 
the existence of social classes and relations of exploitation, domination and contestation 
within society. The "system" is seen as a uniform block, consider making some progress as 
part of liberalism. But it is not at all part of liberalism that children should not work, 
that health expenditure must be socialized, etc ... These are the social struggles that 
achieve some gains that can be quickly challenged by those in power of the "system", the 
State and employers. Thus, if the extreme right can declare revolutionary is primarily 
because it considers the system as too free, not enough authoritarian and threatening the 
capitalist order, sexist, racist and neo-colonial. On the contrary, we are revolutionary 
for true equality political, economic and social.

Religious criticism as a screen of a racism: Islam or Judaism are often criticized through 
secularism or atheism. However, criticism of religions, strong anarchist theme, should not 
be the occasion to rally to racist arguments and essentializing we witness every day from 
the extreme political right of course, but also the speech spreads left or the extreme 
left. Criticism of religions must aim at a general militant atheism and anticlerical 
against religious dogma.

The nationalist anti-capitalism: Nationalism is a strong foundation for the extreme right 
and the right. It can be found also on the left or on the far left as a form of defense 
against global capitalism. There are often economic proposals left and far-left using the 
state and national companies as a remedy for the crisis and the international financial 
markets. If we are against the financial markets, we are also fully capitalist and 
antiétatistes and therefore we need to prioritize responses out with the system, without 
help from the state, not confined to one country. It seems illusory to want to fight a 
strong international capitalism without a strong international anti-capitalism too.

The anti-industrialism and environmentalism essentialist: The confusionists critical 
industrial society and destructive of natural resources by the idealization of crafts and 
nature. This often leads to ecologists theories brought on the individualisation of 
behaviors (buying "green" as a tool of emancipation) and therefore guilt-as well as 
essentializing human behavior leading to a denial of patriarchy (seen as "natural" 
phenomenon) , a defense of the heteronormative family and a refusal to free access to 
abortion. If we criticize the industrial society, it is above all by his side alienating, 
authoritarian, and its appropriation of natural resources (not shared and wasted). The 
modes of struggle that we favor are the collective struggles creating a balance of power 
and not simply individual behavior.

Conclusion

Confusionism creates the "defectors" strange journey with people starting at the far left 
to finish at the far right. It is difficult to explain these individual courses, but we 
can say that the confusionism is fertile ground.
The confusionism is now extensively covered by the media loves sensationalism and taken 
inconsistent positions. He found a large audience in the general media and the Internet.

One of the general features of confusionism is the hierarchy of oppressions and struggles. 
The perception of oppression and therefore the same struggle as above all others is 
already an open door to the confusion: no matter what you think of the rest of the time 
that we agree on that.

Reflections on the intersectionality of oppressions may therefore play a role in the 
prevention and fight against political confusion. Intersectionality studying the forms of 
domination and discrimination not separately but in the bonds that tie them on the premise 
that racism, sexism, homophobia or the social categories between relations of domination 
can not not be fully explained if they are considered separately from each other.

In general, it is important to identify confusionists discourse and deconstruct, they 
mainly benefit the spread of the ideology of the extreme right and fascist groups. The 
development and distribution of our own analyzes and claims, as well as our investment in 
the field of social struggles must be a bulwark against the rise of these reactionary and 
authoritarian thinking in society. Florian and Xavier Another Future Group (Montpellier)

The site allows confusionnisme.info to keep abreast · e · s political confusionism.

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