The publication of an anthology of writings by Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), some of
which published in the journals: "Storm" (The Assault) and "Arbetaren" (TheWorker), of the Swedish anarcho-syndical organization SAC (Sveriges ArbetaresCentralorganisation ), has made it possible to rediscover the relationshipbetween an intellectual and the workers' union movement. ---- Dagerman can becompared to the reflection that goes from Kafka to Camus up to Simone Weil. ----It's an attempt to pick up the ranks, after World War II, of a broken discourse,that of trade unionist and libertarian value and spirit. In an attempt torecompose the themes of Freedom and Justice directing them against bourgeoisnihilism and Stalinist absolutism. This contemporary revolt is found in thelibertarian principles of syndicalism, the Paris Commune, Catalonia of 1936-39;the deep wounds of war do not bend the will not to suffer, indispensable tosustain the formless and furious movement of history. The lyrics are different:"Ardent hearts" (Storm 1943); "The new reaction" (Arbetaren 1945); "The writerand conscience" (40-tal 1945); "My point of view on anarchism" (40-tal 1946);"Pessimism: courage or fashion? (Vi 1946); "The meaning of the classics" (DagensNyheter 1946); "The task of literature is to show the meaning of freedom" (Folketi Bild 1947); "The Petkov case" (Arbetaren 1947); "Put your signature on it"(Veckojournalen 1948); The movement of citizens of the world" (Prisma 1949);"Almost mid-century" (Stockholms-Tidningen 1949); "A solemn promise" (Arbetaren1950); "Contribution to the East-West Debate" (Folket i Bild 1950); "Welcome toSheffield" (Arbetaren 1950); "The dictatorship of mourning" (Arbetaren 1950);"The radiant future... Answer to a high school student" (Idun 1952); "Walkingthrough the streets of Klara" (Arbetaren 1952).Bearer of an existentialism that is aware of the end, but attentive to socialcriticism and injustice, Dagerman sees in capitalism an exasperated competitionthat brings insecurity, lack of control over decisions and an individual'sanguish that cannot be silenced. The lack of a revolutionary perspective inreality is not expressed in an escape but in an ethical choice: to be thepolitician of the impossible.He investigates his own time and interprets the contradictions. Having behindAlbert Camus's concept "We are an anthill of lonely men" the search forconsolation in Dagerman, who committed suicide, reaches vertigo and surpassesboth Camus and Sartre: no consolation can be satisfied by human experience.Within a generation of writers formed between the 30s and 40s of the twentiethcentury, a season tormented by war and dictatorships, his writing is transformedinto an elaboration of thought, as in Simene Weil, Dagerman constructs a humancondition not linked at the cruel time of history, but focused on the moral oflife, between good and evil, where writing and truth serve to order a shatteredworld; in a perspective that sees the individual emancipated in a future time andthe anxieties of a century equated to a garbage heap.The anarcho-syndicalist militant choice derives from the observation of thefailure of any other political possibility, from "democratic" anguish to thecanonization of the abstract in state-based experiences, his way out of fatalismarises from the compression of the initiative of individuals, it springs from ananalyst of anguish in which one immerses oneself as in a hallucination, apolitician of the impossible, engaged in criticism of mass society.The profound reflection on freedom is summed up in his protest for the killing,in 1947 in Bulgaria of Nikola Petkov by the Stalinist regime of Georgi Dimitrov;analyzing an act in which the life was not taken only from a single individualbut from all the opponents, to the very principle of free will, to freedom ofthought and speech.A realistic use of utopia as a philosophy of history capable of becoming acollective subject and protagonist of its own contemporary story, also understoodas a right of resistance, to restore dynamic trust and recognition to modernity.BIBLIOGRAPHY: Stig Dagerman, The red wagons, Via del vento, Pistoia, 2011;Stig Dagerman, The politics of the impossible, Iperborea, Milan, 2016;Andrea Baiani, Dagerman. To ask the possible is to appear defeated, in "AliasSunday" a. VI no. 16; 17 April 2016, page 7;Sac, Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, www.sac.se info@sac.sehttps://www.veliber.org/archivio/IlCantiere/A3/cant_2023_14/files/cant_2023_14.pdf_________________________________________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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