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Information Policy Blog Local Collective of Montreal, a member of the group Libertarian
Communist Union (UCL Sunday, February 3, 2013 ---- What is a libertarian communist
revolution? ---- The following lines appear undoubtedly some naive (s). ---- This is the
risk in dealing simply and in few words, complex issues that have been the subject of
countless publications, since at least two centuries. ---- This is to make the initial
responses (reflection, debate) questions that arise - almost never dare to make - and many
of those who find those street protests and flags libertarians. ---- Perhaps more
activists confirmed (s) they will also make their profit from this imaginary dialogue,
which has no other ambition than to encourage others verbally.
(This text was written in 2002 by Claude Guillon, a French anarchist, and is taken
directly from their website.)
What is a "revolution"?
We call a radical revolution - that is to say that attacks the roots - the economic
system, social and political system.
In a capitalist society such as we live in a revolution will tackle the wage system, in
which human activity is largely limited to the stress and work (production of goods),
exploited labor for the benefit of owners and / or shareholders.
Abolish the revolution, with wage labor, money, which serves to support the abstraction of
value (of a commodity, an hour of work, a human being ...).
Revolution runs immediately what can be described as "large" institutions, such as the
state, the police, and possibly his army. It also disrupts the institutions of everyday
life such as the family and the couple, where the relations of authority are organized by
age and sex (adult authority on minor [e] s, men on women ). This upheaval is both an
important goal of the revolutionaries, and the material effect of a period of break with
the habits of everyday life (general strike movement difficult, occupations ...).
If some things are now easier to change than a century ago (eg separate erotic pleasure
and procreation through contraception), other behaviors were little changed (always women
do 70% of housework ). Reflection and struggles on these issues are part of a
revolutionary struggle that will not stop a miracle or a big night morning.
The prospect of a revolution is not it utopian?
In other words, a revolution is possible?
It is impossible for us, and we are sure it is to bear the world as it is!
We have everything to gain from a radical change in the world and nothing to lose, because
everything that makes us the enjoyment of our short life - meetings, discussions, love,
shared emotions - this is now forced limited atrophied.
There will be no perfect society once and for all to live happily without conflict. It is
in the effort, in the very movement of the revolutionary transformation of social
relations that proves life a thousand times more exciting.
As the Russian anarchist Bakunin wrote: "I am truly free only when all human beings around
me, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of others, far from limiting or denying
my freedom is instead a necessary condition and confirmation. I really do not become free
by the freedom of others, so that more men are free [add: and free women, and children
free] around me, deeper and wider is their freedom and broader, deeper and wider my
freedom becomes. [...] My personal liberty and freedom upheld by everyone extends to
infinity. '
It will continue to eat well, to enlighten empty the trash, what do I know?
Spent the first days of paralysis, inevitable and necessary (to affirm the strength of the
movement, deter potential movements of the army or the police) should be restarting some
sectors: transport, supply, distribution water, gas, electricity. All these assets will be
distributed free of charge.
Many other sectors will be permanently abandoned, either immediately or gradually.
Immediately: factories producing goods unnecessary (a majority of current production) or
harmful. Gradually: an industry such as nuclear, which requires even after the cessation
of production, monitoring and dismantling of complex activities.
We remark that the abolition of wage labor, shared by job rotation necessary for the
functioning of society (garbage collection, eg.), And the suppression of money
(distribution community necessities and for the rest imagination and barter on the current
model SEL) rule very simply false issue of unemployment.
Note also that in terms of food, only the food "organic", currently reserved to wealthy
clients, will be distributed collectively. This choice of sense depart disaster risk such
as "mad cow disease" or GMOs.
Many practical issues are discussed and resolved in time by the people concerned, and in a
way difficult or impossible to predict, it is vain to draw in advance a list of measures.
However, it should be understood that revolution does not mean ownership by the population
of the world as it is. Should be otherwise "self-management" arms factories, tax
administration, and detention camps for undocumented ... One wonders why we spend so much
energy to get there?
Hypothesize, for example, and to illustrate our reasoning anyway, in terms of transport, a
way too expensive, too dangerous and also harmful to the environment (kerosene, noise)
that the aircraft would be phased out. One can think that the concern Countdown "modern"
travel time will be considerably extended. Because no one will care more "to Asia in ten
days," we prefer to find people and landscapes, without a boss dictate to you the return date.
The Revolution Is not synonymous with violence?
It is not difficult to observe around us, in the family or in the street, watching
television or reading the newspaper to see the world as it is today, capitalism being
globalization, the legacy of colonial societies of the last century, the world is
synonymous with the worst violence.
For example: the male domestic violence today, in a country like Spain, six times more
victims (90 women murdered by husband or lover in 2001) that terrorism Basque separatists ETA.
The degree of violence necessary to overthrow the established order does not depend on the
good will of the revolutionaries, but to a large extent on the reaction of the masters of
the world. The determination industrialists, technocrats, politicians, and voters Le Pen
to respond to a revolutionary movement, the violence they would be willing to use to
reduce all that unpredictably determines the degree of inevitable violence of a revolution.
In a society where technically developed can be implemented in many sabotage techniques
(including computer), which require little or no physical violence, the better chances are
met paralyze the system with less human casualties that accidents road weekend of Easter.
Subsequently, the company revolution - the priorities to adopt health (no toxic drugs, no
quotas hospital equipment), prevention (Sida), reducing drudgery and dangerous - reduced
the number of "social victims" who are now paying with their lives for the operation of a
system based on profit.
Is not it easier and more realistic to change society through reforms?
Reformism looks like a reasonable solution and "realistic."
The problem is that, alone, he never reform.
Function of historical and political reformism is not to arrive at the same results as a
revolution, means slower or "soft". Function of reformism is to defuse the rebellion and
to convince the victim of the capitalist system that may well develop their fate within
the system, without changing the rules, and without depriving the reformers of their jobs.
Even if it is to achieve reforms, revolutionary strategy is most effective. Indeed, one
can only be answered in two ways - possibly combined - a revolutionary threat: by force or
by reformist concessions.
If a social movement limit itself, in order to be presentable on television, reasonable
and realistic, its claims and goals, it will not escape the violence (he sends CRS) and
may not get anything at all.
In a negotiation, power will always try to give less than what is required, and if I ask
less than what I want, I'm not sure I get what I want.
The easiest way is to show clearly the revolutionary project, which does not preclude
temporary benefit concessions from the state.
Take advantage of the revolution does not opt ??for "all or nothing", by giving always
essential to later (big night), it is rather enjoy all historic occasions, all the
struggles for reaffirm the requirement communist and libertarian regain all the freedom to
share everything in equality.
Everything is agreed to appoint the "democratic progress" have also been granted under
pressure from the street and barricades. Sometimes modern leaders to allude, when they
hope that this historical deter new barricaders to stand against them. We say that such
people have died so that we have the right to vote, which should discourage us from using
other means of action. But of course this is a lie. Many people have actually fought and
some died in battle, and when the French Revolution, against those who would confiscate,
declare the end of compulsory and later against those who wanted to return to the
monarchy. But ultimately, it is the republic which kills more workers on the barricades,
including in 1848 and 1871, during the Paris Commune.
There are new reformist groups. They may use a vocabulary or illegal action methods
borrowed from the revolutionary movement. They claim the right to housing, a guaranteed
income for all, or a tax on capital movements ... They capture the generous indignation
and the need for action to many people who do not feel attracted to revolutionary factions
often closed and sectarian. They have no other prospect than illusory "citizen control" of
capitalism.
But "democracy" is precisely the staging policy of citizen control, guaranteeing the
morality of "capitalism with a human face", "economy regulated by law," as Jos? Bov?.
Although they may temporarily embarrass a minister, a government or administration, they
finally participate in the functioning of the system, which applies to neutralize them,
integrate, digest.
The revolutionary project, that is to say, the idea of ??a revolutionary break with the
present world and the proposed construction of another company is not a dream, in the
sense that it would be impossible to achieve. The revolutionary project is the best way to
be realistic, that is to say, to stick to our rebellions, our desires, our dreams, to
refuse all too real nightmare of a world Marx had already observed that it is "bathed in
icy water of egotistical calculation."
There are parties, leagues extreme left who call themselves communist and / or revolution.
What separates libertarians?
Postaliniens of [1] to PC Trotskyist LCR (100% left, with real pieces left inside!) There
is no shortage of supporters of "communism" or "revolution", provided they to be leaders
and beneficiaries!
Anarchists, libertarian communists have remained faithful to the principle shown by the
First International: the emancipation of the workers must be the task of the workers
themselves.
We have only to avant-garde, the schemers and bureaucrats! This is the exploited
themselves to take matters into their hands, and everywhere now - on the site of the
operation employed in the neighborhoods and on the streets - without waiting for the
correct historical period ordered by the Central Committee.
Returns on the story (that of the Russian revolution, for example) are effective ways to
verify the authenticity of feeling good today displayed by some and by others. It took
only eight years to eliminate the Bolsheviks, for murder and put into camps, all
opposition political Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries and anarchists. The revolt of
the Kronstadt sailors and Makhnovist insurrection in the Ukraine were crushed in blood.
Terror bureaucracy, which Trotsky was an essential part (the head of the political police
and the Red Army), turned against his own supporters. Himself was executed on Stalin's
orders in his Mexican exile. But many Trotskyists today have so much trouble that
postaliniens to digest their past and unambiguously condemn or bullshit crimes of Lenin,
Trotsky, and Stalin.
Today, Trotskyist LCR attempt to capture their profit sympathy for anarchist ideas they
feel in the social movement and its manifestations. Besancenot has only the word
"libertarian" in the mouth and explained that red flag is stained black [2] (and green, to
dredge the Greens). But what does he say? The LCR wants to participate in "a government
that would break with capitalism and pave the way for democratic socialism" (Revolution,
p. 150). This is word for word the same lie that Mitterrand used in the late 70s to
reconstruct a socialist party capable ... what we saw (it is true that the mole Trotskyist
Jospin came to be appointed Prime Minister). Of course, everything would be different with
the LCR! Is it safe? Besancenot read: "We do not remove money overnight (p. 180) [...] Our
project is more ambitious: to create massive employment by reducing working time [...] (p.
209). "However, the phase transition [old Bolshevik joke!] Towards an egalitarian society,
the production process is still subject to the technical division of labor. There will
still workers, employees, technicians and managers each carrying specific functions;
income will be further identified by skills and not needed (p. 252). '
And what will happen to the impatient fuck does that have to produce for the new regime
under the leadership of the same executives paid with the same money, all under the
direction of light militants LCR? They send the "new jobs" militia responsible for them
back in the skull of a sudden butts historical realism that decides central committee
meeting when the time is ripe!
How can we trust people who, even after 80 years of reflection, justify repression future
ahead? Their closets are filled with corpses, we do not forget. As for libertarian ideas
and our black flags they pretend manage franchise: DOWN LEGS!
Everything would change, invent! ... It seems a superhuman task!
At least give the delirium of believers, that there would be a "god" creator manipulates
humans like puppets and monitor since no one knows what "beyond", we must consider that
humans are the only responsible for their life, what they accept or reject.
That does not mean that the undocumented living in Paris or landless peasants in Brazil
are guilty of oppression they suffer, but they are men of flesh and blood who exploit and
persecute, and not a superhuman fate, against which it is impossible or futile stand.
As the effort required to build a different future, they are huge, but - at the level of
the entire human race - no more impressive than those that you have provided, human infant
of a few pounds, depending on all the adults who surrounded you, to become an individual
thinking, talking and walking on its hind legs, able to use a computer and sing a poem by
Rimbaud ...
Think about the extraordinary field of culture, knowledge, and energy that humanity is now
divided by religious fanaticism, colonial wars, tribal, exploitation and hunger. This
field is only used ten percent may be, and for the sole benefit of globalized capitalism.
It will not be difficult to "less worse"!
I'm sorry, but I do not believe it!
Nobody asks you to "believe" in the revolution, as we believe in the Devil, the aliens or
reincarnation. It is not a distant prospect and motivating, as a kind of super-carrot
(organic!) To suspend you before the nose.
Revolution is the collective project of the free association of free individuals who are
beginning to change the world right now.
It is only too easy to find in the reading of a newspaper or the behavior of colleagues
reason to retreat into the vulgar cynicism: "All idiots! ". To suffer the most, the height
of misanthropic bitterness is so special category: blacks, immigrants, women ...
A revolutionary, "optimism of the will" is not a moral bias, it has a dynamic content and
practical experiences the most enjoyment, and we love to make love the more we encounter
individuals different, and we are hungry for the world's diversity, plus we check in
action its ability to change lives, and we discover new reasons to act.
Vade Mecum II, Paris, (first version, May 2002).
[1] At PC or Attac, the postalinien (contraction of the prefix qualifier Stalinist and
post), no longer has the sickle and not always the card, but it assumes the historical
role of Stalin: undermine the revolution by all means.
[2] Revolution, Flammarion, 2003, p. 72.
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[ 1 ] At PC or Attac, the postalinien (contraction of the prefix qualifier Stalinist and
post), no longer has the sickle and not always the card, but it assumes the historical
role of Stalin: undermine the revolution by all means.
[ 2 ] Revolution , Flammarion, 2003, p. 72.
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