There may be various ways of thinking about the future, but only two are the most
prevalent: the pessimistic and the optimistic. Whoever writes this newspaperhopes (and therefore fights for) a future without governments; the title of thepublication is itself a perspective; it serves to remind us, even when we diveinto the daily necessities of survival and small problems, that without a generalperspective everything loses its meaning, risks turning into a trap, or, in theworst case scenario, it can become an alibi to justify compromises, the failures,the removal from active militancy.We wrote itand claimed: the utopian horizon is the imaginary line towards whichwe move and, despite the concrete possibility of never being able to reach it,thanks to it we are able to walk, not to stay still, not to let the moss of the'inadequacy and immobility rust, in a few words: to stay alive, human, and rebelfighters for a better worldBut this perspectiveit is not a fixed point on the calendar of history. It mustbe built day by day, piece by piece, even if what is built is often overwhelmedby the fury of the reaction. The ruling classes will always try to block the timeof those who claim denied rights, and, on the contrary, to make it go fast forthem, due to their boundless need for ever more sophisticated technologies andtools to crystallize the conditions of subordinates.The current crisisworld pandemic is putting us in front of a difficult test, theresult of the distortions induced by capitalism on the environment and on thebalance of nature; but everything is being discussed except the causes thatgenerated such a catastrophe. Thus the system, which should be impeached, ridesthe pandemic by setting itself up as a savior, while it proceeds undeterred inthe destructive action that produced it and that will produce the following ones.The management of the crisis is conducted in an authoritarian manner, guaranteesmaximum profits to the multinationals of the drug and the power to theiraccomplices political classes. Every reflection on the teachings of thisexperience, made especially in the first months of its explosion - "nothing willbe the same" it was said - has been relegated to oblivion,On the environmental issue, optimism is increasingly crushed by the weight of areality that is almost hopelessly out of control. Capitalism, in its variousforms: market, Chinese-style, neoliberal, imperialist, has caused the breaking ofmillenary balances leading the whole of humanity towards catastrophe. We see thisevery day. Yet there does not seem to be an adequate reaction on the part of thathumanity, the poorest, the most sensitive, which is already suffering the mostdramatic consequences. As young people take to the streets, and millions ofenvironmental migrants abandon their lands, the heads of state, the worldbankers, the masters of the economy, pretend to worry about the fate of theplanet, but then they emit only farts of words to cover the their misdeeds.War is the only waythat states travel in every corner of the globe: a war thatsuffocates peoples and territories, which conditions every effort to establishfriendly and supportive relations, necessary in this salient phase of humanhistory. Construction and trade in armaments, military missions, local conflictsfomented by the various powers, control of resources, communication routes andspace, have made militarism jump to the first place among the modalities ofregulation of international relations.Even from the pointin view of the affirmation of a secular, secularized thought,in the world things are not going well, and it is already evident how the health,environmental and military crises in which humanity finds itself entangled, weare fueling the search for reassuring religions (also don't call it that) ortotalitarian regimes. Odifreddi writes in "Left" of 24 December: "Catholics inthe world are more than a billion, Muslims are almost two billion, while Facebookhas about 3 billion users. Inside it presents, just like the great monotheisticreligions, its prophets and liturgies that are shared compulsively withoutreflecting. Religious thought, as we can see, may not necessarily be linked to areligious tradition ".The picture is therefore bleak and every revolutionary prospect, every tensiontowards a free society, struggles to make its way despite the unlivability andunsustainability of the globalized capitalist system being there for all to see.Let's go back to the two ways of dealing with this situation: pessimism andoptimism. We who lean towards the latter certainly do not think that things willfix themselves; we are realists, and therefore able to understand the mechanismsof human conditioning and to define alternative responses to the falseaccommodating responses that leave the substance of things intact. In '68 peoplewrote on the walls: "we are realistic: we want the impossible". Today there is aneed to desire the impossible, to reinvent utopia, to bring dreams into everydaylife, to imbue our lives with anger, to re-weave relationships that are aimed atindividual and collective revolt. We need the joy of contrasting a sea of NO withthe resigned attitude of saying YES. And this must be done now.We Sicilians do not have the future in our language; to say "we will do" we say"we must do": someone has read it as an act of pessimism, instead it representspaying attention to what we can implement today with our will, so that the futureis not just a promise but the consequence of today's actions. It is today that weare gambling with the chances of a better future.Pippo Gurrierihttp://www.sicilialibertaria.it/2022/01/10/un-futuro-da-agguantare/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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