Of a dialogue that had been interrupted too long ago between a Milanese Jew and a
half-Polish southerner ---- The consequence of that unfortunate issue was thatfor over ten years I no longer wanted to open the magazine, not even when I foundit around in Urupia, place of the earth and of the spirit (not holy spirit, Imean Pachamama) which then allowed - thanks to a kind of mediation of somecommoners - a very slow and gradual rapprochement between me and Paul. In the endwe explained ourselves very briefly, postponing an articulated resolution of therespective positions to the near future; but without urgency, because when we metor felt we always had other things to talk about. I started sending something,and at a certain point he wrote to me because he wanted a confrontation with me(I know he did it with other people, I'm not deluding myself that I was somehowchosen) about the direction the magazine should take.After a long time, also due to the geographical distance, we were finally able tosee each other and I told him that, beyond the different visions - I did not failto remind him once again how big the mistake had been on Genoa 2001 - in myopinion the problem of a editorial initiative like A-magazine was being tooobviously tied to one person. I asked him when he had been like this and hereplied that it was about fifteen years. The exclusivity of the choices had beenmitigated in recent times by the presence of a valid and young co-editor but thedifference in experience and roles was too great - a few years had passed, maybe ...A collective management, even a small group, would have had the advantage ofhaving to mediate and discuss some delicate points. Others (to me) have told -"If in many years a collegial management has not been renewed, this was first andforemost a decision by Finzi."Maybe they were right, but at the present state of things we would slip into pureanachronism by reasoning about it.What comes out, however, is a good indication. That is, that intelligence,sensitivity and willpower are excellent qualities for making anarchist press, butperhaps they are not enough. Because a comparison with the inside and the outsideis also needed. And this is not only true for solitary newspapers, but also forpublications that see small and sclerotic groups entrench themselves in their ownpositions, right or wrong.I confess: Paolo and I have never really been friends. I think we would havebecome, we both had it on the list of commitments made for the years to come.Then he stole the trains with his unhealthy passion, but we have already said that.If you have any Aiellata to propose to us ... - this was how he wrote to me toask for a contribution, which, alas, I didn't always have time to prepare.I would have liked, but they are not like those who turn out hundreds of pages aweek, I need time and I have rarely been able to satisfy it.He is a Jew and I am from Milan, half southerner and half Polish, what could wehave in common?I believe that above all there was the awareness that without a sense of humorthe task of libertarians, already sensationally intricate in itself, becomesmiserably desperate.But, more than that, a common feeling on a subject we had just begun to talkabout and on which I could not keep up.We had, Paul and I, the same need for a radical change in the concepts on whichlanguage has been flattened for decades - he knew well what I was thinkingbecause he had read Taoism and anarchy, where I explain it briefly in a few pagesof the last chapter .As I mentioned earlier: if categories such as proletariat, militancy, classstruggle, revolutionary class, class consciousness, false consciousness,structure / superstructure have ever served - and today I very much doubt it -they are now proving to be worse than obsolete: I consider them wrong anddeceptive. The undeniable fact that for so many years it was possible to toleratethe delusional postulate that it was necessary to look for in the industrialproletariat who would act as a driving force for the revolutionary constructionof a new society, while the underclass and peasants were destined, ascounter-revolutionaries, to hinder it, it says a lot about the scarce criticalcapacity of a movement for change that was real and alive, but condemned todefeat by its own watchwords. And the compliance of large swaths of libertariansectors towards those words illustrates in a disheartening and incontrovertibleway how, despite the legacy of powerful cultural and analytical tools, manyanarchists were basically at the mercy of the desire to win a game that wasimpossible to win. Too many anarchists were reluctant to consider Trotsky andLenin as prototypes of the authoritarian replicant churned out by the socialistmovement (from Kerensky to Pilsudski, from Mussolini to whoever you like, theyare a legion), considering them instead people who, having done the right thing,had then unfortunately disregarded towards totalitarianism for a supervening andinexplicable thirst for power. Really embarrassing the articles by the nice EmmaGoldman that she was an enthusiastic supporter of the work of the Bolshevikleaders until she bumped into it (and only because the Yankee state forced her to).And then, what sense to give to old words? "State", this is indeed an ancient anddifficult word. It was effective when the appeal to the sacred homeland to bedefended against the invaders like a granite block had some more or less sensibleresponse, but today the flows of power pass through the customs garrisons withsuch placidity that the conquest of the institutional levers is a ridiculoushypothesis, as the varicolored Italian governments of the last decades haveblatantly made, carrying out exactly the same policies - that their highestpublic representatives had formed into centrist, fascist or communist parties.Not that the state no longer exists, this is pretty and good nonsense.If you go around saying that there is no pandemic, the tso is not done by theexecutives of the pharmaceutical company that produces the chemical with whichyou will be neutralized, but the employees of the interior ministry and thesalaried workers of the ministry of health, who at that moment they exercise themonopoly of violence that the state would theoretically always hold - and in thiscase it really does. The bullet that sent Carlo Giuliani to the other world wasnot fired by an emissary from some obscure power group, but by a regularlysalaried institutional man. The state is there, that's all. Except that now theDominion, mainly due to the changed technological-productive conditions, filtersthe institutions in a different way compared to the times when Japan closeditself to external influences - that is, until 1853, when the American navyeffectively explained to the shogunate that the sakoku was to be archived amongretired state organizations - and to those in which the libertarian Internationalargued that the first task of the workers was to abolish political power. Butwhat is political power today? A mere farce, as witnessed by sad hacks such asBerlusconi and Conte, Trump and Biden, or something more aggressive, proposed byhumans eager to demonstrate their tenacity and competence to the limit offanaticism in keeping society, the state and military structures together. andthe productive ones? How to evaluate the work of men like Putin, who try tointerpret the possibilities that the technological-military alliances externaland internal to the borders provide adequate stability to the national orimperial power that they triumphantly stage? In any case, a very poor thingcompared to the power of Qin Shi Huangdi, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, guys like that.And Erdogan, Khamenei, Draghi, do they belong to the same species or do theybelong to different and parallel worlds?Really, are we still willing to speak in terms of the Imperialist State of theMultinationals?A showman used to say that "whoever speaks badly thinks badly", and it can beadded that whoever thinks badly often acts in vain.On this basis we had understood with Paolo and we had planned a series ofarticles that he would have waited for, perhaps in vain, without getting upset.Giuseppe Aiello3 - continuehttps://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________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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