The very low participation in the recent regional elections in Lazio and
Lombardy, after the record of abandoning the polls on the occasion of the generalelections in September, has forced intellectuals, political scientists,journalists and commentators to address the question, defined as alarming, of thelandslide victory of the so-called " party of no vote". ---- Certainly it istruly alarming, especially for the parties, which, seeing electoralreimbursements being heavily reduced, are returning, from right to left, to askfor the restoration of public funding. However, since this argument is not verymanageable, indeed being openly unpopular, it still needs to be refined to bemade presentable, perhaps by restoring arguments such as: "public funding is anantidote to corruption", freeing parties from economic necessities " represents ademocratic guarantee".The theme stirring up the current debate is therefore that of thedelegitimization of parties and, consequently, of the national and regionalgovernments themselves, which, not having the consent of even a substantialportion of half of those entitled to vote, should give up their mandate for someextremists , for others they should reflect on the collapse of confidence on thepart of citizens and run for cover.On this discourse of the vertical fall of trust in parties and the consequentcrisis of democracy, everyone lingers to discuss a bit, looking for remedies leftand right. But for us anarchists, this level of discussion is fraught withpitfalls and unacceptable overtones. In fact, the problem would be to restorelegitimacy to the parties by bringing the electorate back to the polls as in thegood old days.Well, we who preached and practiced abstention even when more than 90% of voterswent to vote and the distance between politics and the people was not inquestion, would have something to say, and we do it as always outside the pack.Our calls for abstention have always been based on the rejection of delegationand on a criticism of delegated democracy. Delegation to parties and politicalfigures was and is an unconditional, non-retractable delegation; theparticipation of the people in the life of the country is limited to the fewmoments of the gesture of the cross on the card. Without an imperative mandate,this delegation grants parties and politicians the absolute power to do and undowithout the voters being able to have any more say. The democracy expressed bythe electoral system - a system, moreover, strongly conditioned and conditioningthrough promises, blackmail, terrorist campaigns, falsehoods, etc. - is a systemof dictatorship in disguise.It occurs to no one that the progressive disintegration of relations betweenparties and the electorate has precisely this long and abused exercise ofdelegation as its origin, which has widened the bureaucratisation of parties andthe professionalisation of their men, creating castes, centers of interest,lobbies increasingly out of control. It is a structural fracture whose causes arepersistently in the functioning of parliamentary democracy.We are not interested in seeking remedies within parliamentary logic. Parliamentis a large congregation of parasites that must answer, not so much to fewer andfewer voters, but to the real powers that govern society. We think it is goodthat more and more voters are no longer duped by electoral sirens, but we are notso naïve as not to think that delegation - this poisonous fruit of authoritarianeducation that we have all received - can be manifested in other ways than voting(passivity, consumerism, religiosity, conformism...), in such a way as not toquestion the system. It is good not to vote, but it is clearly not enough; if onedoes not have a general vision of the problems, if the refusal is not motivatedby reasoning on how to face and solve the most important individual andcollective problems through direct action, participation from below, and we couldeven dare to say: direct democracy, if even this term had not been watered downby false delegating participation through electronic systems or municipal civiclists.There is an amorphous mass that "doesn't care", "doesn't trust", and, mind you,this mass can also be found within the voting component; all these people -indifferent - remain open to any outlet, be it populist or, paradoxically,self-management; however, there are substantial slices of companies that nowproceed on their own, build networks of mutual support, alternative economy,services (kindergartens, schools, canteens, transport...) managed from below whofight to defend territories, for the right to the house, for health, for theprotection of the environment, etc., with the clear conscience that there are nofriendly governmentshttps://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________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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