(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Confusionism
a danger to the struggles by djou (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
We have already largely exposed the context of crisis we are experiencing now. Course
economic crisis with a continuous increase of misery and insecurity but also ecological
crisis with the scarcity of available resources, social crisis with widespread social
cannibalism and political crisis finally with, among others, a breakthrough confusionism.
---- It seems important to focus on the political confusionism that is gaining ground
every day. ---- What political confusionism? ---- The political confusionism is that
conservative and reactionary currents, belonging to the sphere of the extreme right,
ownership and use of thematic usually carried by currents located opposite of the
political spectrum. They therefore invest the struggles of their land, opposing es
policies (anti-capitalism, ecology, criticism of religions ...), using a rhetoric that is
close to them, to serve actually their own ideology.
The confusionism develops over a growing political, sociological and historical low, and
the idea that "politics" refers only to the actions of the ruling classes, leading
individuals to proclaim "apolitical".
The confusionism also feeds the emotional communities maintained by industry news and
culture, creating a union of
viewers and spectators on various facts and dramas.
A critical confusionism no arguments or explanations does not hinder its development and
the dangers that result. This type of criticism may instead result in withdrawal of some
es activists or, in the same way, distancing other activists or sympathizers who see're
multiplying it releases / they do not necessarily understand.
You have to make the difference between that and those who are confused, or appear to
join, and those who organize it. Uniformly reject is not reasonable, we all trajectories,
sensitivities and histories.
It is the deliberate confusion and it takes tackle organized mainly by clarifying how we
wear our ideas and struggles, and highlighting speech under the confusionism on these
issues. We will try here to make an initial assessment (non-exhaustive) preferred by
professionals thematic confusionists. It is each time to highlight what we consider
confusionists reasoning or practices, and explain that if we also address these issues, it
is for different reasons, with claims and a radically different vision of society.
Overview of thematic confusionists
The anti-muddled : the anti-word is often taken over by the far right. It is to criticize
the system case heard for tou-te-s libertarian, but how?
There has been a general denial of the existence of social classes and relations of
exploitation, domination, and Challenges in society. The "system" is seen as a uniform
block, consider making some progress as part of liberalism.
But it is not at all part of liberalism that children should not work, that health
spending should be socialized, etc ...
These are the social struggles that achieve certain gains and can
be quickly challenged by those in power of the "system", the State
and employers. Thus, if the extreme right can declare revolutionary is
primarily because it considers the system as too free, no asse authoritarian and
threatening the capitalist order, sexist, racist and neocolonial.
Instead, we are revolutionaries for real equality political, economic and social.
Religious criticism as a screen of a racism : Islam or Judaism are often criticized
through secularism or atheism. However, criticism of religions, strong anarchist theme,
should not be the occasion to rally to racist arguments and essentializing we witness
every day from the extreme political right of course, but also the speech spreads left or
far left.
The criticism of religions must aim at a general and militant atheism anticlerical against
religious dogma.
The nationalist anti-capitalism : Nationalism is a strong foundation for the extreme
right and the right. It can be found also on the left or on the far left as a bulwark
against global capitalism form.
There are often economic proposals left and far-left
using the state and national companies as a remedy for the crisis and international
financial markets.
If we are against the financial markets, we are also fully anti-capitalist and
anti-statist and therefore we need to prioritize responses out with the system, without
help from the state, not confined to one country .
It seems illusory to want to fight a strong international capitalism without a strong
international anti-capitalism too.
The anti-industrialism and environmentalism essentialist : The confusionists critical
industrial society and destructive of natural resources by the idealization of crafts and
nature. This often leads to ecologists theories brought on the individualisation of
behaviors (buying "green" as a tool of emancipation) and therefore guilt-as well as
essentializing human behavior leading to a denial of patriarchy (seen as
"natural" phenomenon) , a defense of the heteronormative family and a refusal to free
access to abortion.
If we criticize the industrial society, it is above all by its alienating hand,
authoritarian, and its appropriation of natural resources (not shared and wasted). The
modes of struggle that we favor are the collective struggles
creating a balance of power and not simply individual behavior.
Conclusion
Confusionism creates the "defectors" strange journey with people
starting at the far left to finish at the far right. It is difficult to explain these
individual courses, but we can say that the confusionism is fertile ground.
The confusionism is now extensively covered by the media loves sensationalism and taken
inconsistent positions. He found a large audience in the general media and the Internet.
One of the general features of confusionism is the hierarchy of
oppressions and struggles. The perception of oppression and therefore the same struggle as
above all others is already an open door to the confusion: no matter what you think of the
rest of the time that we agree on that.
So Reflections on the intersectionality of oppressions can play a role in the prevention
and fight against political confusion.
Intersectionality studying the forms of domination and discrimination, not
separately, but in the bonds that tie them , assuming that racism, sexism, homophobia, or
between the social classes relations of domination can not be fully explained if they are
considered separately from each other.
In general, it is important to identify confusionists discourse and deconstruct, they
mainly benefit the spread of the ideology of the extreme right and fascist groups. The
development and distribution of our own analyzes and claims, as well as our investment in
the field of social struggles must be a bulwark against the rise of these reactionary and
authoritarian thinking in society.
djou
Articles by this author
Debate - "Crises, libertarian Analysis - Understanding to fight" - CGA
Article of the collective Stop Masculinism dating from January 2015.
Screening and discussion around the film NO
Screening of the doc: "swirl cleaning in subcontracting"
No human being is illegal!
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