There are at least two ways to make music. The negative one and the positive one. We can screech as long as we like on the strings of a violin and still not succeed in making what comes out music. But a whole portfolio of scores of the great composers still does not make a musician. It follows that one should not pay attention to how things are said as much as to what is being said.
The image of wilderness vs. Wildness
(Author’s note: The frequent use of quotation marks in this essay is to reinforce the idea that nature and wilderness are concepts, not actual beings.)
Nature has not always existed. It is not found in the depths of the forest, in the heart of the cougar or in the songs of the pygmies; it is found in the philosophies and image constructions of civilized human beings. Seemingly contradictory strands are woven together creating nature as an ideological construct that serves to domesticate us, to suppress and channel our expressions of wildness.
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Whatever can such a promise mean, made as it was at the time of the collective illusions inspired by Berlusconi’s electoral propaganda.
In practical terms, nothing. Not just because it is impossible, but because it goes against economic logic itself.
Let us explain.
For capitalism, work is a commodity, and because it is derived from activity carried out in exchange for a wage, man himself becomes a commodity. So a work market actually exists. Work has a price (wages), and there is a direct relationship between lack of work (unemployment) and the level of market prices.
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Our task as anarchists, our main preoccupation and greatest desire, is that of seeing the social revolution realized: terrible upheaval of men and institutions which finally succeeds in putting an end to exploitation and establishing the reign of justice. For we anarchists the revolution is our guide, our constant point of reference, no matter what we are doing or what problem we are concerned with. The anarchy we want will not be possible without the painful revolutionary break. If we want to avoid turning this into simply a dream we must struggle to destroy the State and exploiters through revolution.
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The tendency to fall into a defensive attitude in the face of repression is best counteracted by developing an understanding and practice of revolutionary solidarity.
Revolutionary solidarity is, above all, a revolutionary practice. What this means is that it carries within itself the aims of revolution. For this reason, as anarchists, we cannot base solidarity on any authoritarian or economic foundations. It is not a matter of obligation, duty or debt. No one owes anyone solidarity, regardless of what they have done or what they are going through. Rather the basis of solidarity is the recognition of one’s own struggle in that of others — in other words, complicity. This is of major importance. If solidarity is the recognition of my own struggle in the struggle of others, it is carried out in practice precisely through continue that struggle, continuing to attack this social order, and doing so with a focus on what unites my struggle with that of others.
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“Retomando Nuestras Vidas” fue una serie de charlas y conversaciones con Jean Weir en Hamburgo y Berlín Alemania el 20 y 22 de septiembre… A las que asistieron entre 50-100 personas. En Hamburgo se hizo la charla en la “Rote Flora” un espacio anticapitalista que lleva mucho tiempo y en Berlín se hizo en “Stadthaus Bocklerpark” una sala popular de deportes. Lo siguiente es un apartado de las charlas en total.
Sabes que… de cierto modo, creo que tenemos que examinar nuestrxs expectativas- porque estamos aquí- porque vivimos en un mundo de repeticiones y las cosas se suelen repetir, también con nosotrxs dentro del movimiento. Es posible que esperamos, en cuando aparece un compañero de una cierta edad, que esta persona nos explicará su organización y de alguna forma extenderla en el hecho de describirla. No es el caso esta noche. Sólo intentaré comunicar un par de ideas dentro de un contexto de ideas porque somos anarkistas- bueno, hablare del punto de vista de una anarkista- no tomaré por descontado que todo el mundo aquí es anarkista, pero obviamente estamos de acuerdo que tenemos un enemigo en común.
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Toward the Creative Nothing – Renzo Novatore (Elephant Editions)
Translated by Paul Sharkey
CONTENTS
Introduction
Author’s Preface
Background Notes
I Face to Face with the Enemy
II For Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
III Error, Cruelty and Blind Obstincay
IV Anarcho-Banditry versus Drawing-room anarchism
V The Anarchist, Love and the Woman
VI The Bandits
VII The Struggle is Always a Bitter One
VIII For Absolute Freedom with a Colt .45
IX The Last Battle
X The End
XI Death
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