A contemporary adage states that it is easier to imagine the end of the
world than the end of capitalism. The dynamics of today's world are
indeed frightening for those campaigning for collective emancipation.
From the Palestinian genocide to the environmental catastrophe, from
murderous cynicism towards migrants to the rise of far-right ideas, from
the risks of generalization of wars to ever-increasing poverty, we have
few elements to rejoice in . The madness of capitalism is revealed by
its political personnel: Trump, Milei, Putin, Netanyahu, etc. We feel
absolutely powerless in the face of the enormity of the task and the sum
of past failures. What flame animates us so as not to despair and
continue the fight?
We know that capitalism generates conflict which will only increase:
climate crisis, economic crisis, social crisis, war crisis, etc.
necessarily leading to future movements of revolt. We know that such
movements transform the people who experience them, making them embrace
emancipatory aspirations which most often go beyond the initial reasons
for the revolt. We do not know who will lead such movements, nor where,
nor when, nor the reasons for their emergence. We just know that this
will exist because the current world recurrently causes situations of
tension or struggles. However, for those whose perspective is The Great
Evening, that is to say the hope of a global uprising of the working
world at a given moment which would overthrow capitalism and establish
communism, the failures of the past leave us little 'hope.
The beyond of capitalism can be envisaged differently. The future will
emerge from the present, that is to say from the current material bases,
from the contemporary class struggle, and not from our imagination. We
must therefore rely on past experiences without mythologizing them. The
current world resembles neither Paris in 1871 nor Russia in 1917 nor
Catalonia in 1936. Obviously, capitalism is based primarily on an
economic relationship, but the oppression of capitalism today goes far
beyond the only wage exploitation by commodifying every aspect of our
lives. This brings legitimacy to other forms of struggle than those
based on the simple relationship of wage exploitation. Today there are
constant struggles, that is to say, kinds of anti-capitalist breaches:
strikes, self-managed places... Of course, they are small and often
ephemeral, sometimes repressed violently. They are not sufficient to
overthrow capitalism but they show the path to collective emancipation
towards libertarian communism. These are moments when the revolt against
the dictatorship of capitalism is created collectively, where people
find social cooperation by emancipating themselves from the
individualism in which we are locked in, where they build a common
locally. Larger breaches sometimes emerge (G.J., suburban revolt, Sainte
Soline, retirement movement, etc.). They reveal class confrontation at a
more macroscopic level and they often carry within them the same
processes of emancipation from the capitalist straitjacket through the
construction of a collectively self-managed movement.
These revolts are so many spaces against and beyond capitalism. They
must be seen as participating in a multiplicity of singular battles but
belonging to a common constellation, a network which converges against a
single object: the form of life imposed by capitalism. The various
current and future struggles are part of the construction of a common
which is the fight against capitalism and all its forms of oppression.
We must think of these breaches, sometimes microscopic, sometimes
macroscopic, in terms of emulation, of contagion. We must deepen them,
work at their confluences, make them connect and help them resonate, to
build the beyond of capitalism in a multiple and interrelated way. On
this basis, the revolution takes on another meaning. There is not a big
evening to hope for but a current movement to amplify. The important
thing is not the limits of each movement but their directions.
Capitalism has many weapons to slow down, crush, divert such breaches.
If we analyze capitalism as a fixed system, capable of constantly
reproducing itself identically, there would be little hope of imagining
overcoming it definitively. However, the tensions of capitalism are only
increasing and generating multitudes of protests. The fact that
contemporary movements most often seek an autonomous and grassroots
political form makes possible the genesis of a libertarian communist
society, that is to say a world completely different from the one we
know today. Indeed, the particular forms of social life that emerge from
such struggles make it possible to envisage a form of management of the
common without a State separated from society, with modes of government
integrated into social life. The production of wealth will be
reorganized on the basis of the current world and therefore will retain
economic and social connections from the present. This future can
therefore be a world made up of multiple interrelated worlds, considered
as a living process, therefore in permanent modification. Libertarian
communism will arise from these struggles and the reappropriation of our
lives in territories where social life has a human meaning, while
retaining the necessary links beyond geographic localism. The idea from
then on is no longer to choose between two impasses: building a single
communist world doomed to failure or locking oneself into small isolated
communities also doomed to failure.
Capitalism is not infinitely flexible, it has its own contradictions. We
do not know the path to our collective emancipation, we do not know if
we will succeed, but the dynamics of capitalism allows us to hope for
the amplification of protean revolts; a bush of breaches carrying the
overcoming of capitalism. From these multiple struggles can be born the
future libertarian communism. We must affirm our libertarian communist
utopia and affirm that this ideal is already inscribed in all these
current breaches, sometimes microscopic, sometimes macroscopic.
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4124
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world than the end of capitalism. The dynamics of today's world are
indeed frightening for those campaigning for collective emancipation.
From the Palestinian genocide to the environmental catastrophe, from
murderous cynicism towards migrants to the rise of far-right ideas, from
the risks of generalization of wars to ever-increasing poverty, we have
few elements to rejoice in . The madness of capitalism is revealed by
its political personnel: Trump, Milei, Putin, Netanyahu, etc. We feel
absolutely powerless in the face of the enormity of the task and the sum
of past failures. What flame animates us so as not to despair and
continue the fight?
We know that capitalism generates conflict which will only increase:
climate crisis, economic crisis, social crisis, war crisis, etc.
necessarily leading to future movements of revolt. We know that such
movements transform the people who experience them, making them embrace
emancipatory aspirations which most often go beyond the initial reasons
for the revolt. We do not know who will lead such movements, nor where,
nor when, nor the reasons for their emergence. We just know that this
will exist because the current world recurrently causes situations of
tension or struggles. However, for those whose perspective is The Great
Evening, that is to say the hope of a global uprising of the working
world at a given moment which would overthrow capitalism and establish
communism, the failures of the past leave us little 'hope.
The beyond of capitalism can be envisaged differently. The future will
emerge from the present, that is to say from the current material bases,
from the contemporary class struggle, and not from our imagination. We
must therefore rely on past experiences without mythologizing them. The
current world resembles neither Paris in 1871 nor Russia in 1917 nor
Catalonia in 1936. Obviously, capitalism is based primarily on an
economic relationship, but the oppression of capitalism today goes far
beyond the only wage exploitation by commodifying every aspect of our
lives. This brings legitimacy to other forms of struggle than those
based on the simple relationship of wage exploitation. Today there are
constant struggles, that is to say, kinds of anti-capitalist breaches:
strikes, self-managed places... Of course, they are small and often
ephemeral, sometimes repressed violently. They are not sufficient to
overthrow capitalism but they show the path to collective emancipation
towards libertarian communism. These are moments when the revolt against
the dictatorship of capitalism is created collectively, where people
find social cooperation by emancipating themselves from the
individualism in which we are locked in, where they build a common
locally. Larger breaches sometimes emerge (G.J., suburban revolt, Sainte
Soline, retirement movement, etc.). They reveal class confrontation at a
more macroscopic level and they often carry within them the same
processes of emancipation from the capitalist straitjacket through the
construction of a collectively self-managed movement.
These revolts are so many spaces against and beyond capitalism. They
must be seen as participating in a multiplicity of singular battles but
belonging to a common constellation, a network which converges against a
single object: the form of life imposed by capitalism. The various
current and future struggles are part of the construction of a common
which is the fight against capitalism and all its forms of oppression.
We must think of these breaches, sometimes microscopic, sometimes
macroscopic, in terms of emulation, of contagion. We must deepen them,
work at their confluences, make them connect and help them resonate, to
build the beyond of capitalism in a multiple and interrelated way. On
this basis, the revolution takes on another meaning. There is not a big
evening to hope for but a current movement to amplify. The important
thing is not the limits of each movement but their directions.
Capitalism has many weapons to slow down, crush, divert such breaches.
If we analyze capitalism as a fixed system, capable of constantly
reproducing itself identically, there would be little hope of imagining
overcoming it definitively. However, the tensions of capitalism are only
increasing and generating multitudes of protests. The fact that
contemporary movements most often seek an autonomous and grassroots
political form makes possible the genesis of a libertarian communist
society, that is to say a world completely different from the one we
know today. Indeed, the particular forms of social life that emerge from
such struggles make it possible to envisage a form of management of the
common without a State separated from society, with modes of government
integrated into social life. The production of wealth will be
reorganized on the basis of the current world and therefore will retain
economic and social connections from the present. This future can
therefore be a world made up of multiple interrelated worlds, considered
as a living process, therefore in permanent modification. Libertarian
communism will arise from these struggles and the reappropriation of our
lives in territories where social life has a human meaning, while
retaining the necessary links beyond geographic localism. The idea from
then on is no longer to choose between two impasses: building a single
communist world doomed to failure or locking oneself into small isolated
communities also doomed to failure.
Capitalism is not infinitely flexible, it has its own contradictions. We
do not know the path to our collective emancipation, we do not know if
we will succeed, but the dynamics of capitalism allows us to hope for
the amplification of protean revolts; a bush of breaches carrying the
overcoming of capitalism. From these multiple struggles can be born the
future libertarian communism. We must affirm our libertarian communist
utopia and affirm that this ideal is already inscribed in all these
current breaches, sometimes microscopic, sometimes macroscopic.
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4124
_________________________________________
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