WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA News Journal Update - (en) Russia, Avtonom: Remove the state? "Trends of Order and Chaos", episode 133 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The President turned out to be an anarchist? ---- Our podcast usually

covers events in or around Russia, but two stories have recently emerged
that an anarchist news project can't ignore. ---- Argentina allegedly
elected anarchist president Javier Millay. He calls himself an
anarcho-capitalist, including posing with the black and gold diagonal
flag of so-called "market anarchism." The flag is similar to the black
and red flag we are used to, but instead of red it is gold, according to
Millay, signifying the ability to acquire wealth.
Millay won against the background of impoverishment of the population,
huge inflation and fatigue of Argentines from the country's traditional
center-left establishment. Millay demands a radical reduction in the
role of the state and sympathizes with former US President Trump and
former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Is Millay an anarchist in our understanding of the word? Of course not.
Calling for a reduction in the role of the state, he first of all talks
about the curtailment of social support institutions, and not about the
reduction of the state as an apparatus of violence.

You can quote  the text of the Belarusian anarchists from the group
"Pramen":  "The key problem lies in the conditions of the withering
away/destruction of the state. Not every end-of-state scenario
represents a transition to an anarchic society. One of the foundations
of anarchism is a deeper look at the problems of power in general.
Modern anarchists advocate not only the abolition of statehood, but also
all other forms of human exploitation: capitalism, patriarchy, racism
and many others.

In the case of Argentina, an aggressive reduction in the role of the
state and the transfer of the right to violence to private companies and
corporations can only lead to the transfer of power into the hands of
elites, over which the ordinary population has no influence at all. If
the state sometimes experiences moments of political shock, as in the
case of the election of a libertarian as president, then in corporations
decisions are made behind closed doors by only a small group of managers.

Let's not forget quite simple truths: just as not every revolution leads
to the liberation of the working people (and from our history we
remember that even under red flags, exploitation can continue for a long
time), and not every abolition of the state leads to an increase in the
freedoms of the population. Last week, Argentines chose a far-right
politician, contrary to the lessons of the past and present."

Let us wish the Argentines to survive the reign of this gentleman with
minimal damage to themselves. And for us... PR is never black. Let's
hope that the news coverage of the so-called "anarchist president" will
eventually attract additional attention to the ideas of normal anarchists.

Zapatista self-government
In November, alarming news came from Chiapas that the Zapatistas were
closing the "snails," their regional centers of self-government. They
were so called because the snail is important in Mayan mythology. Then
reports appeared that the Zapatistas as a whole are doing well, they
just now have a different system of self-government, not structured
according to a regional principle.

We must understand that the Zapatistas exist in difficult conditions,
and have long been not an armed group, but a civil movement, and this is
precisely what makes them strong at the moment. On January 1, they plan
to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their armed uprising, but when and
if they take up arms again, the Mexican state, ready for such a step,
can be expected to quickly destroy them.

So now the Zapatistas have to endure attacks from right-wing
paramilitaries supported by the authorities, and also watch the war
between drug cartels unfolding, including on their territory. The
Zapatistas have managed to survive in these difficult conditions for 30
years, and being thousands of kilometers from the south of Mexico, one
can assume that their methods of resistance are working.

Russian budget
If in Argentina they plan to abandon the social obligations of the state
for the sake of libertarian quasi-freedom, in Russia the state social
system is sacrificed to imperial madness.

Putin is due to sign the  2024 budget this coming week . And this will
be a record budget: almost 40% of spending is planned for military needs
(10.8 trillion rubles) and law enforcement agencies (3.4 trillion rubles).

Not everyone knows, but the cops have been "optimized" for many years no
worse than state medicine, and there are also a lot of unfilled
vacancies in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative
Committee, and the Federal Penitentiary Service. The authorities are
concerned about this problem and intend to increase benefits and
salaries for those who must protect them from the people.

Social expenditures of the 2024 budget are a record low since 2011 ,
they will amount to 7.7 trillion rubles, 21%. The resettlement programs
for emergency housing , ecology , and others were cut  . They will
allegedly "increase" spending on health care and education much lower
than predicted inflation.

Moreover, the budget is designed not just for high oil prices, but also
for the fact that Russia will successfully sell its minerals in 2024,
with which, too, "not everything is so simple." Now let's imagine what
expenses will be further reduced if income is less than planned?
Officials will obviously not reach into the pockets of cops and warriors.

So the choice is clear and unambiguous: either the Putin regime will
continue to burn the material resources and population of Russia in the
fire of the so-called "SVO", the meaning and goals of which are unknown
even to the most devoted Putinists - or we will be able to hit the
outgrown Russian state in the ears. And redirect the enormous potential
of our country from the production of tanks and shells to the real needs
of people.

Well that's all for today! We remind you that in Trends in Order and
Chaos, members of Autonomous Action and other authors give anarchist
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Issue prepared by Listyev

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