CHALLENGING CAPITALISM: A CONDITION FOR LIFE ---- International
Conference - 28, 29 and 30 July. Bogotá, Colombia y en línea ByInternational Secretariat of the FOB ---- We warmly greet the brotherlypeoples of the global periphery represented at this Conference in Bogotá(Colombia). We were unable to be present. So we send these words, whichare still free. ---- We carefully follow the steps of several of thosewho convene this Conference. This is an urgent and necessary meeting.With patience and persistence, we hope that it will help to strengthennew and common paths of liberation.Because the 21st century imposes new challenges on us. Capitalism andstatism are inseparable demons that threaten our entire existence. Theylay new traps for their old oppressions and exploitations.Entrepreneurship, carbon credit, business feminism, sustainability,multipolar world...For example, they try to sell us renewable energies as a solution, butwithout questioning the origin of the problem: the insatiable privateaccumulation of wealth that maintains the high volumes of commodityproduction and the consumerist ideology that comes in this package.Thus, they delay some crises and displace others geographically, withoutever solving them.Faced with the total crisis they created, the possessing classesincorporated (distorting) some of our flags. They want to appear as"humanized capitalism", "green", "inclusive", "non-violent" ... toprofit from better social acceptance.On the other hand, they seduce part of the populations and contestingmovements until they play according to their rules, rules that do notthreaten them as a class. This is the case of state elections, a paththat throughout the 19th and 20th centuries contributed more to theintegration of capitalism and its makeup than to its elimination. Thetime for electoral tactics must pass - which often become an end initself, with a lack of criticism of governments, when elected.In this crisis, the ruling classes are also clashing with each other. Wesee conflicts between reactionary and conservative versus liberal andrepublican elites. Our necessary anti-fascist fight returns. And withit, we are haunted by an error from the past: the alliance with theprogressive bourgeoisie. Such an alliance postpones our defeat, diggingour own grave.It must be remembered that European Nazi-fascism has French Bonapartismand North American racism as precedents and aspirations, bothresponsible for building their nation-states as capitalist empires..."democratic" and "liberal".Comrades, we live in a moment that is also the result of centuries-oldpromises not kept by bourgeois modernity. This total crisis brings outbizarre things. We live in a social psyche of declining expectations,generating anxiety, depression and low hope for the future. They spreadpoisoned food and imprisoning technologies. They unearth authoritarian,militarist and fascist exception files, as if they were anti-system -they are not!But these are times that also give rise to our radical alternatives fortransformation. These are popping up in droves and everywhere. We livein an era of peoples' insurgencies. Some resist and gain greatdimension. Others that are more isolated are eliminated, throughautophagy or repression, or end up being swallowed up by moderate andreformist paradigms.Faced with these challenges, the guiding question for this Conference ispertinent: "How can we live together in this world?" We think that itshould be by an international confederation, as a mutualistself-government from each constituent people, respected in their localautonomies, mother earth and the diversity of human beings. A truedemocracy, from the bottom up and from the peripheries, and not thisdemocracy of the rich.We need a world that can fit several worlds. Several, but not all. Theold world, capitalist and statist, which does not allow others, thismust be overthrown. He is irreconcilable with freedom and justice. Onlyovercoming the old so that the new worlds, which grow in germ, butcontained, can flourish freely.Let's stand firm! One world, one fight!Fraternal hug and good meeting!FOB - Federation of Revolutionary Trade Union Organizations of BrazilJuly 2023https://lutafob.org/saudacao-da-fob-a-conferencia-desafiando-o-capitalismo/_________________________________________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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