#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Russia, avtonom: Is Humanity Capable of Self-Defense: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 65 (July 31) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Hello! Today is Sunday, July 31 and we continue our podcast "Trends of Order and

Chaos". This is episode 65. ---- Here's what we've been thinking about this past
week. ---- From heaven to earth ---- With the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian
war, many began to look for a hobby: something to distract themselves from the
horror, which has been in the news for more than five months, for several hours a
week. Getting carried away with the sciences of space is a great option. Against
the backdrop of the grandeur of the universe, all the ambitions of earthly
assholes who call themselves "world leaders" are multiplied by zero. Our planet
is a grain of sand in a huge creation, which we still do not even see in its
entirety, and do not closely imagine its design.

One of the questions that occupies space explorers is whether there is life
somewhere else in the universe, besides the Earth? Or is our civilization an
accident, and the rest of the cosmos is icy expanses with temperatures below -200
or millions of square kilometers of boiling lava heated to +3000 degrees and above?

According to modern ideas of scientists about space, the Earth is not the only
place in the universe where life is possible. Not to mention the planets next to
other stars, even in the solar system it is possible that once there was life on
Mars, and right now, in some hardly highly developed forms, but there are on the
moons of Jupiter and Saturn, for example, on Titan.

Based on the data of modern science, the Earth is a young planet. There are many
others that existed billions of years ago. The so-called Fermi paradox is based
on this: why has not a single clear trace of a highly developed extraterrestrial
civilization been found yet? Mankind appeared less than three million years ago,
if you count from Homo Habilis, "handy man." If a species similar to us existed,
for example, for half a billion years, the fruits of its activity would surely be
visible in telescopes? Scientists are asking these questions.

One of the hypotheses why traces of extraterrestrial civilizations have not yet
been found is that intelligent civilizations sooner or later self-destruct. This
hypothesis is currently being tested by practice on Earth.

Now a person with a clearly not the most adequate psyche has the opportunity to
single-handedly make a decision to launch so many atomic missiles, after which
human civilization will be eliminated. Moreover, as we already noted in our
podcast, Putin has already stated that he considers his under-empire a worthy
reason to destroy all of humanity: "Why do we need a world without Russia?"

In the second half of the 20th century, there was a powerful movement to ban
atomic weapons. People were very afraid of the mutual threats of the USSR and the
USA. But then the protests faded away: people were convinced that atomic weapons
were allegedly a guarantee against major wars. Who dares to attack a nuclear power?

As we can see, this does not work. Wars are constantly going on in different
regions of the Earth, including with the participation of nuclear powers. The
presence of nuclear weapons did not stop Argentina from attacking Great Britain
in 1982: however, Argentina lost the war for the Falkland Islands ingloriously.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the border territories of Russia have
been regularly shelled, there are dead civilians, many houses have been
destroyed. The inhabitants of the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod villages were not
helped by Putin's nuclear arsenal.

Nuclear weapons by no means stop wars, but give some psycho the opportunity to
destroy humanity. The gun that hangs on the wall may someday fire. So far, only
the authorities of Kazakhstan have proposed to the whole world to abandon nuclear
weapons, their call had no resonance.

The topic of renunciation of nuclear weapons should be returned to the agenda of
the anarchists. The very process of a worldwide ban on this type of weapon would
fundamentally change all the world's political systems.

Is the universal renunciation of nuclear weapons a utopia, are anarchists
dreamers as always? Ok, if humanity is not able to act together, defending its
very existence... Then yes, we can all die together for the glory of Putin's kingdom.

 From shops and squares to changing Russia
Anarchists are opponents of participation in government bodies. A year ago, in
Autonomous Action, there was a consensus about the uselessness of participation
in the election campaign to the State Duma, in general, a good person, Mikhail
Lobanov.

This September in Moscow - elections of municipal deputies, and here the question
is more complicated. In the previous two podcasts, our comrades said that going
to the mundeps is completely pointless. I cannot agree with this.

An important detail is that, based on the letter of Russian legislation,
municipal councils are not bodies of state power. These are official public
structures. Perhaps the entity closest to the mundeps in terms of meaning is the
public monitoring commissions for places of detention (POC).

Mundeps do not receive a salary, only the post of chairman of the district
council is paid. The city vertical of power - in Moscow it is the mayor's office,
councils, and so on - it is beneficial for municipal councils to include
directors of kindergartens and water utilities, as well as businessmen whose
business is localized in this area. They approve everything that the mayor's
office will let them down.

But in the last municipal elections to the district councils, many civil
activists passed. And, despite the seemingly meager powers of the mundeps, this
turned out to be painful for the Moscow mayor's office. Because the council of
any Moscow district approves - or may reject - projects worth billions of rubles.
That is why now many active people are being removed from municipal elections, or
administrative cases are being opened that prevent nomination at all.

The work of a municipal deputy is hard work. If the mundep deals with the
problems of his district, he spends several hours a day on it, for which no one pays.

The Mundeps cannot influence the Kremlin's policy in any way. The powers of the
Mundeps are to keep the shops where they need to be, so that the neighboring
square is not cut down. So that tragedies do not happen, as happened this week in
the south of Moscow: a cheap hostel burned down, in which, presumably, workers of
the Sadovod market lived. There were bars on the windows that did not allow
people to get out, eight people were burned alive. Shortly before the fire, the
hostel was allegedly checked by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and no
violations were found.

But from the shops, the square and the normal work of regional institutions, the
interest of the townspeople in managing their lives begins. This can provide a
baseline from which to build a grassroots movement with larger demands and
self-management skills. Murray Bookchin was talking about something similar.

After February 24, at first it was even ridiculous to talk about protecting some
square from cutting down. But the Kremlin system of power has not yet fallen. For
the sake of allegedly "supporting business", restrictions have now been
additionally lifted, for example, preventing development contrary to the
interests of local residents. There are already many protests on local issues,
and they will become more and more interesting.

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the
participants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events.
Listen to us on Youtube, SoundCloud and other platforms, visit our website
avtonom.org!

Issue No. 65 prepared by Leaves

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