#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CZECH #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Czech, AFED: A3: Luxury for everyone (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Inflation and energy prices are an acute problem. But the long-term problem is
the capitalist regime itself. Download, print and distribute the September issue
of the A3 wall newspaper! ---- The regime we live in is called bourgeois
democracy. What exactly does that mean? It is not so difficult to explain with
reference to the two levels of this concept. ---- The economic doctrine of such a
regime is capitalism. This means the economic management of a society built on
social inequality. That inequality means that a narrow group of privileged people
own capital, and the rest of society does not. The capitalist fairy tale says
that with hard work you can get from the masses of the underprivileged to the
elite club of the richest. Capitalist practice, on the other hand, says that
diligent and honest work is only for the dull masses, which are only good for
multiplying the wealth of those at the top day after day.

The political superstructure of such an economic establishment is parliamentary
(bourgeois) democracy. It consists in the fact that with the help of the state,
capitalism is kept running, people are once in a while given the false feeling
that they can decide on something, during so-called elections. But the
fundamental rule of such elections is the preservation of social inequality and
capitalist relations, where some own almost everything and others can just sell
their hands, brains or bodies. The task of the state in capitalism (as it was
under the previous regime, which can be characterized as state capitalism) is to
keep the masses of the underprivileged in a state of numbness and faith in the
existing (immutable) order. For the economic elite, and therefore also for the
political elite, which usually (either intentionally or because they can't do
otherwise) do the former some kind of service, it is very disturbing if the
underprivileged masses claim their share of the social wealth.

One of the tools that was introduced within the capitalist regime supervised by
the state is the so-called social peace. Which is supposed to be a state where
the capitalist accumulation of profits is ensured to run smoothly and at the same
time those who create these profits for the capitalists with their work can at
least have a dignified life ensured in some way - i.e. at least that they will
not live in uncertainty and that various rescue programs will work. Such social
peace is then cooked together by representatives of employers, the state and the
leadership of the largest trade unions.

So much for a bit of theory and now to the unhappy reality of these days. While
the top economic elites are recalculating their profits, the masses of the
underprivileged are acutely facing a rather insane assault on their wallets. As
if the rising rent prices were not enough, regardless of the impossibility of
most people to buy their own housing. (But what to expect if apartments are not
understood in capitalism as a means to satisfy one of the basic human needs, but
as an opportunity for investment.) Currently, most of us are facing a sharp
increase in energy prices. You probably don't need to imagine what this means in
a society where a large part of households do not have any major savings.
Likewise, there is no general adjustment of wages, pensions and various
allowances corresponding to inflation, which affects more and more goods and
services.

As anarchists, we know that elections will not change anything. As we like to
repeat: If they really could change something fundamental, they would have been
banned a long time ago. This is already one of the reasons why we know that the
biggest nonsense is to listen to various political hochstaplers, who may
criticize the political and economic elites, but their goal is to get their own
share of power, if they themselves are no longer among those elites (how can we
seen in politicians à la Trump, Babis or their immortal predecessor Berlusconi).
If they do not reject capitalism as such, as well as the centralization of power,
then they represent no real change and are just (often somewhat browner)
variations on the same theme.

If we were to look back in non-revolutionary times for some force that, although
it does not bring about any real change, but at least tries to get as much as
possible for the mass of workers, then we must turn our gaze towards the trade
unions. They called a Demonstration Against Poverty in Prague on October 8. As
anarchists, we decided to support her. We can hope that it will not just be about
releasing the valve of angry workers and the campaign of the chairman of the
CMKOS as part of his candidacy for the presidency. But we are not so naive as to
harbor false hopes, after all we have been walking around the world for some time.

The real hope will come when the working people realize both the power they have,
the fact that they are not defenseless, and then that if they want, no one will
buy castles and haciendas abroad for their labor while they squat desperately at
the bottom of the wallet . And that's why we call out: Social wealth belongs to
everyone! Luxury for everyone!

A3 (September 2022) can be downloaded HERE. https://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2022-09.pdf

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The A3 wall newspaper is published by the Anarchist Federation every month. They
are mainly intended for dissemination through plastering in the streets or
posting in workplaces and schools.

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