WORLD WORLDWIDE ARGENTINA News Journal Update - (en) Argentina, ICL-CIT: Organizacion-Obrera #97 - ABOUT THE CLASS. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 "Man is not what he eats, but what he thinks." Emilio Lopez Arango. ---- We can

talk about class or classes. If we respond to the social construct that surrounds
us, we can interpret that there are several, but this text seeks to reflect that
there are only two. ---- The job ladders in the first instance make us think that
the manager has a higher class than the cleaning staff, and that the systems
department, in its complete tertiary, deserves a higher reward than those who
could finish high school. ---- This idea is neither more nor less than a response
to the steps that determines a status quo that runs all the time accepting us to
a greater or lesser extent for our capacity to consume and not for our role in an
economic system.
Socially, we normalize this structure that sections and divides, we accept this
condition of superiority and inferiority and a place that belongs to us, where
they put us, but surely, if we had the option, we would not make it our own.
The point that generates two unique classes are the relations of production and
consumption.
On the one hand, we produce, we put in labor, to generate 10 and take 1 with us.
We make capital or property of others for which we are paid according to a
limited agreement regarding our interests, something that indistinctly happens
both for systems personnel and for the cleaning
The limited agreement is made between party and union leaders, modifying the
organization of society and in it economic production. It has been like this for
years, and the leaders, in what is understood as necessary in representation,
have been acting at the will of their own accumulation, instead of equitably
distributing the value of the product.
Conceiving representation in centralism is, on the one hand, saving us a task,
but on the other, losing as in war. Centralism in representation is also the
centralization of capital, through policies that do not work for the common good.
And what is politics if it is not the thought of the common good?
Where there is no common good, surely there is an injustice. If there is a poor
person, it is because there is a rich person, and that inequality is the
responsibility of the rich. It will always be the responsibility of the rich and
whoever lets him be rich.
Approaching the idea that there are only two classes, the class condition finds
us regretting being poor, adjusting all the time to an economy that we did not
choose, by options that are not ours, following ideas that do not include us.
This is and will be so, as long as we stay in regret.
Feeling, or knowing oneself, is part of a class is also justice and making the
rich responsible first, no matter how hungry our bellies scream, is necessary.
Being a worker in any part of the ladder that touches us is a political role that
we perform socially, it is simply diminished in an inert condition where we never
ask ourselves why the hell an alarm clock wakes us up every day.

I do not think I am exaggerating in reaffirming the idea that the rich should not
be killed, butchered and fed to the poor, nor is the plan for the poor to become
rich, nor for the rich to become poor. The search is towards a condition of
equality where we can only recognize ourselves deep down as equals.

"The ideas of anarchism are those that our comrades have bequeathed to us as a
storeroom from which to take the precise tools for the necessary actions. What is
missing must be invented.
These ideas are not reduced to the finalist imaginary of the social revolution.
The contribution of anarchism to the labor movement is much more rooted in the
sharing of archaic principles such as direct action, the assembly, the rotation
of positions, the abolition of privileges and personalism, the decentralization
of decision-making and solidarity among colleagues. [1]

Today is the time to prioritize returning to the assemblies, over debating who to
vote for, or yearning for a new Maradona or Christ who steps into the mud and
saves us.

[1] Anarchism in the labor movement- Workers' Organization No. 94

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