WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #22-25 - The Long Summer of Anarchy (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The fiery pall within which we move seems to extinguish all hope. The
anvil of the sun strikes everyone, especially those living in difficult
circumstances, those who perform manual labor outdoors or in unhealthy
conditions, and the most vulnerable. The relentless and hopeless weather
seems a paradigm of the human condition, in a society incapable of
satisfying the basic needs of the population, incapable of guaranteeing
the minimum conditions for the preservation of life on Earth, incapable
of ensuring peaceful coexistence.

A world without a future.

The failures of 20th-century revolutions have contributed to the
construction of this imagery: bloodily suppressed by imperialist
reaction, like the Spanish Revolution, or degenerated into a more or
less complete restoration of capitalism, as occurred in Russia, China,
and Cuba.

A lucid critique of these experiences is important to foster a new faith
in a future that has the legs to realize its potential. The parties that
won government in those failed revolutions were convinced that the
development of productive forces would allow the transition to
communism, the society of abundance. Therefore, their goal was to
conquer government: they were convinced that, from the control room,
they could accelerate economic development, which in turn would destroy
capitalist relations of production and the resulting social and cultural
superstructure, including the state. To achieve this goal, they spared
no one. The working class, the peasants, and all of society were thrown
into the meat grinder of production; to achieve this, gigantic
apparatuses of control and repression were created, but the long-awaited
emancipation never arrived. The bureaucracy controlled the distribution
of social surplus value, and it is inevitable that in a situation of
still-escalating scarcity, such a concentration of social surplus in the
hands of a central administration would result in the granting of
significant privileges to its members.

Today, humanity faces two tragedies. On the one hand, rising hunger and
poverty necessitate increased production of goods and services for mass
consumption; on the other, the environmental crisis requires a reduction
in production. Faced with this dual challenge, governments and
intergovernmental institutions are powerless, or rather, choose not to
act. Thus, on the one hand, millions of people die from poverty, while
on the other, millions die from the environmental emergency. Meanwhile,
governments are more concerned with waging war among themselves,
squandering the Earth's resources on armaments and causing further
civilian deaths.

It is up to anarchism to show the way out of these tragedies, first by
stripping the tools of domination from those incapable of using them to
solve problems-that is, governments. Daily experience shows us that
government is the body least capable of responding to the needs of the
masses and solving the environmental crisis.

The anarchist movement, present in today's society and actively engaged
in social struggles, strives to build organizations for the
self-management of struggles, organizations that will form the
foundation of future society. Starting from this activity, it will be
possible to rebuild society based on free associations of producers and
consumers, without a two-track politics, but by immediately implementing
as much of the new social organization as possible. From the outset, the
new society must see every person, united by a conscious, experienced,
and constructed solidarity, voluntarily cooperating with others for
mutual well-being. Anarchism hopes that society will be constituted with
the aim of providing all human beings with the means to achieve the
greatest possible well-being, the greatest possible moral and material
development. Then we will be able to experience the long summer of anarchy.

Tiziano Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/la-lunga-estate-dellanarchia/
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