Recently, I've felt like I'm on a merry-go-round, accelerating, going
back over the same places, going backward, forward, backward. A crazymerry-go-round from which I can't get off. The scenery is always the
same, this scenery repeats itself again and again. ---- Legal Disorder
---- Like you, I've read and heard what's happening at the level of the
government, which exists then no longer exists, then re-exists, only to
disappear again. A kind of Schrödinger-style government? I can still
keep up, but for how long? ---- It's quite paradoxical, all the same, to
blame anarchists and anarchism for the promise of immeasurable disorder,
when the president and the French political class, currently serving as
a prime example, are orchestrating institutional chaos. Certainly, there
are governments and ministers appointed, but they disappear before
taking action or are thwarted by motions of censure in Parliament. This
results in no real action from either the government or parliaments.
As disorder goes, it doesn't get any better, especially from a republic
that claims to be the guarantor of order.
Long Teeth
A distressing spectacle from this political class, all parties combined.
Distressing, but not surprising. Ambitions are becoming apparent. To be
the queen, the king of the mountain. To take the place of the one who is
there. Or accept a position as a servant (minister), to try their luck
in the parliamentary elections. Power for power's sake, knowing full
well that the votes won't produce a majority and that we'll fall back
into the same situation, or almost. But they will have their positions
assured. We hear them cry "resign" here and there. Yes, I agree with a
definitive resignation from the system. Replaced by libertarian
federalism and self-management. A sixth republic would be no more
effective than a fifth. And no more longing, ambition, and kings and
queens of the mountain!
Meanwhile
Meanwhile. We live our unsatisfying lives. Reduced to powerlessness and
the goodwill of this political class that confines us to inaction and
dependence on their mediocrities. Woe betide us if we want to take our
destinies into our own hands, by deciding in a self-managed way about
our lives and our actions. Woe betide us if we want to permanently oust
them from power and definitively abolish all forms of power. They
wouldn't accept it and would gang up on us so they could continue to
rule us. Or we should be wary of all politicians who promise us a new
republic, blah blah blah, free of its flaws. Speaking of flaws, the
flaws are politicians and their political systems. We've been carrying
around flaws for millennia.
Suspended?
Political parties are waiting for a government to act, and this wait
could last a long time. The unions are waiting too. There's talk of
suspending pension reform. And no one is calling for its outright
withdrawal. And since there's a ratchet effect of no return, once
governments have introduced a number, an idea, into the media arena, no
one remembers the recent past. Not long ago, retirement was at 60. But
note this: no political or even union body talks about this retirement
age anymore, submitting to the current idea that you can't retire at 60.
So, if the legal working day gradually increased from 9 to 10, then to
12, and finally 13 hours, without a pay increase, Would political
parties and unions campaign only for a return to 12 hours without loss
of pay? It's thought-provoking and frankly saddening that political
parties and unions submit to and admit the gradual loss of social
benefits and allow themselves to be convinced by the prevailing rhetoric
about the need for fiscal austerity and economic crises, economic crises
that only apply to the poor. This credulity regarding capitalism, whose
money hasn't suddenly disappeared forever. This capitalist propaganda
that they have swallowed as an inescapable truth. When it's not a lie.
When capitalism seeks to squeeze more and more out of us to always make
more at our expense.
Since capitalism is not reformable, any more than states are, I hope
they disappear.
I hope that
I hope that this political charade, this political crisis, as the media
calls it, will last for quite some time. I hope that this will open
eyes, ears and political consciences to a necessary and radical change
in society. No longer be confined to submission to inactivity,
deliberately imposed by a government of any kind.
No longer wait, expect nothing from any government whatsoever. Act,
decide, think, propose, by ourselves, for ourselves. For our individual
good and the collective good. Finally, live freely and truly.
Frédéric CLERE, Paris Commune Group
https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8633
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