The times we are living through converge to create a real drama, the
cause of which is clearly identifiable in the capitalist productionsystem with all its contradictions. ---- This is a consideration that
prefigures unprecedented scenarios, on which it is necessary to reflect
because they are destined to influence future social and class
structures, as well as the very prospects of a revolutionary alternative
to the capitalist system: an alternative that, in the current phase,
appears to be increasingly delayed. ---- From many quarters there is
talk of a global strike against the war and some steps in that direction
are objectively being taken, but these are still too modest attempts.
Furthermore, there are attempts that tend to build a movement of opinion
which, even if it assumes large dimensions as is certainly desirable,
risks being recoverable in whole or in part by the capitalist production
system, as has evidently happened to large components of the pacifist
and green movement, considering that even the entire class movement does
not escape capitalist recovery.
Let's be clear: these are risks that those who act run, we are aware of
it, and we certainly do not underestimate the efforts of others to
create awareness that avert war and environmental destruction, these
destructive phenomena increasingly complementary.
But it is necessary to ask a question: for such vast, complicated and
urgent objectives, such as peace and environmental protection, what is
the appropriate path that can lead to strengthening the movements that
fight in that direction?
The answer to this question can for the moment only be formulated in
terms of trend: we need to identify the supply chains in which the
instruments of death and environmental devastation are produced and
develop suitable strategies to counter them with even partial victories
capable of rekindling the hope that it is possible to reverse the trend
of defeat, as it has been inexorably asserting itself since the 1980s.
This also implies an analytical effort in order to develop elaborations
as the problems are expanding and, to understand them, it is necessary
to contextualize them to develop a reasoning.
Poverty, hunger, daily dependence on material need and the same roots of
underdevelopment; the same increasingly widespread wars, fought by the
great imperialist powers for the control of the markets, which create
death and destruction, forcing entire desperate populations to emigrate
from their countries in the vain search for better living conditions;
the environmental disaster that increasingly characterizes our existence
together with a daily violence that mainly attacks the social classes
shattered by the crisis and therefore weaker and less protected; the
fascist, racist and homophobic regurgitations and their homicidal
degenerations resulting from a society in which the reaction is well
rooted and which still proves to be oppressed by the patriarchy.
All these phenomena derive from an ancient contradiction that has
monstrously developed in the capitalist society in which we live and
which reaches up to the present day: the social wealth produced by two
billion wage earners as a universal class, is frighteningly concentrated
in very few hands of that bourgeois class which, representing and
pursuing exclusively its own particular interests, is committed, since
its origin, to accumulating new profits to the detriment of the general
interest.
This is an important consideration, the assumption of which allows us to
avoid the paralyzing simplifications that attribute the dramatic general
condition of our planet to "human behaviors" and their nature (genetic?)
oriented towards evil.
There are many who, in fact, identify "in the human being" the
responsibilities of war and environmental devastation when, instead,
these are an unavoidable component of the capitalist production process
and its social system, as we never tire of documenting with fixity.
Therefore, there can be no valid opposition to war, to the destruction
of the environment and to the pursuit of freedom in all its
implications, outside of an anti-capitalist awareness, for a better
world where the universal interests of a humanity freed from
exploitation triumph and not the particular interests of a single class
in power, the bourgeoisie, which appropriates all the social wealth
produced in order to perpetuate its own domination.
Another aspect that we are interested in addressing is that of
anti-Semitism.
It would be more useful than interesting to examine the historical
genesis of this dramatic social phenomenon, but an editorial is
certainly not the most suitable place to do so. We will therefore limit
ourselves to a few simple considerations that we hope will help to shed
some light on the matter and, in doing so, we will try to refer to
concrete phenomena.
As a journalist recently stated, today anti-Semitism "is like beige, it
goes well with everything", considering that this term is used as a club
against any opposition to the will of the Israeli government to resolve
the Palestinian question "manu militari", once and for all, invoking its
right to defense and with the direct complicity of the United States and
the European Union. Therefore: anyone who takes a stand against the
bloodbath consciously perpetrated for decades by the governments of the
State of Israel against the civilian population of Palestine is, without
appeal, an anti-Semite.
This is a very serious accusation uttered profusely by the regime
information, an accusation clearly out of context and which is
configured as slander because by blackening the positions of others it
is easier to mock them.
A population, whatever it is, cannot be assimilated to the policies of
the State in which it lives and, in particular, the State of Israel and
the government that represents it cannot be assimilated to the Jewish
population as a whole, given that there are numerous and numerous
exponents of world Jewry who are radically against the genocidal policy
of the Israeli government, which justifies it by invoking its right to
defense as a consequence of the bloodbath perpetrated on October 7, 2023
by the Hamas militias against the civilian population of the State of
Israel.
One of the awarenesses of anarchist communism is constituted precisely
by the coherence between means and ends, for which a legitimate end
pursued with illegitimate means deforms the end itself and therefore
makes it unattainable.
This is an awareness that anarchism has developed not on the basis of
the ethical principles that it also advocates but, above all, by
accompanying our class in the troubled path it has undertaken for
emancipation from bourgeois and capitalist oppression, from its States
and its apparatuses of domination and oppression, from its wars, from
its myths and its ideologies.
Never, in any circumstance, can the end justify the means: you do not
shoot at the civilian population, never, under any circumstances.
For this reason, the action that Hamas perpetrated on October 7th must
be assimilated to those that the Israeli government is carrying out
against the Palestinian civilian population.
They are complementary actions, typical of state apparatuses and power
groups, made up of bourgeoisies and sectors of the bourgeoisie, which
invoke the abstract concept of people to legitimize their total or
partial domination and which drag with them the consequent and dramatic
reactionary logic.
From this point of view, one is not anti-Semitic if one condemns the
oppression perpetrated by the Israeli government against the Palestinian
civilian population, just as one is not anti-Islamic if one condemns the
criminal action perpetrated by the Hamas militias against the Israeli
civilian population.
It is said that Hamas represents the Palestinian resistance, but it is
more correct to say that it dominates it, or tries to do so even by
resorting to indiscriminate massacres to gain credibility with its
own masses of reference.
The massacre of October 7 is therefore the last act of a war fought
between the Israeli government and those components that, like Hamas,
intend to achieve their hegemony over the Palestinian masses. It is a
war for predominance, behind which lie the interests of imperialist and
area powers: a war that, like all wars, is fought against civilian
populations.
On the other hand, the struggles for national liberation have also seen
oppressed nations transform themselves into nations that oppress:
examples galore, starting with the United States itself which, once
freed from colonial rule, would become oppressors in turn of other
countries and populations. Even the Jewish masses, historically
oppressed until the genocide of the Shoah, once their national state was
established began to oppress the Palestinian masses, who in turn
proposed and propose the destruction of the State of Israel for
national, racial and religious reasons: in both cases in a tragic
repetition of atavistic revenge and ancestral hatreds that refer to the
constitution of national states, even in the case of those born from a
revolution.
This is the case of the Soviet Union, which arose as a result of a
socialist revolution, rapidly transformed into state capitalism governed
by the iron dictatorship of a communist party for the construction of
socialism in a single country, in a rapid transition that, in turn,
would have resulted in a real imperialist configuration.
It is not a question of abstractly invoking the internationalism of
peoples, as too often happens in revolutionary contexts, but the more
concrete one of the oppressed classes also by their respective more or
less strong and representative bourgeoisies constituted in nations or
that tend to do so. Internationalism cannot be reduced to
self-referential slogans but must become a strategic goal to be declined
in reality for the unity of the world proletariat against capitalist
oppression.
It can be said that these are certainly fine words, like the proposals
and objectives that are wasted in this regard: but who is it that
carries them forward, preventing them from remaining a dead letter, or
from being recuperated or neutralized by the same capitalist system that
we are fighting? How can we restore hope in change?
Let us repeat it: what is missing and what must be urgently built is an
organized militant fabric, capable of defining, and above all
articulating, proposals and programs in order to create new awareness
capable of supporting social opposition to the capitalist system and the
horrors it produces.
Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA
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