AGAINST THE CAPITALIST CATASTROPHE

The capitalist catastrophe continues to intensify

everywhere, reaching heights increasingly more incompatible

with life on the planet. War spread across the length of the world,

massive starvation, the intensification of exploitation, an

uninterrupted cascade of suicides, objectification of all social

relations, violence between and against proletarians (sexist

violence, racist violence, violence against children and the

elderly...), packed jails, the destruction of the Earth, increasingly

more toxic food, the destruction of health, etc. The antagonism

between capitalism and life has never been so devastating.

Neither has there ever been a such a large disproportion between

the imperious necessity of a social revolution and the little

intention of assuming it.

example of how mercantile development and the isolated

individual develop in a parallel form. This development not only

brutally negates the human community but presents huge

obstacles to the struggle against capitalism, since the affirmation

of this individual goes in the direction opposed to the

development of the organization of the only community which

opposes capital, the community of struggle, which comes from a

collective being, of a revolutionary social class, the proletariat.

In this context the proletariat has enormous difficulties for

acting and recognizing itself as a class. Its very being, as well

as its rich historical process of struggle and its program, appears

totally negated in history, be it by the deforming or hiding of this

historical reality.

The dynamic of capital itself and its ideological forces project a

social activity in which our class is negated as a subject, reduced

to that which it is in the process of production and reproduction

of capital, and to that which it is claimed it will be eternally: a

simple object of capital; a simple mercantile force of labor,

which can be put to use or disposed of according to the

necessities of production; a simple a spectator of social

occurrences.

The only subject capable of solving the problems of today

through a radical transformation of the society, the proletariat,

shows itself incapable of putting and end to all this catastrophe.

In spite of what it endures and experiences in the flesh, in spite

of rebelling over and over again against the living conditions that

it endures, provoking social explosions which cause the social

peace to tremble in one place or another, like what we have

experienced in Iran or Nicaragua, there exists a whole series of

factors which impede this subject from affirming itself as an

international force in order to impose its revolutionary solution

Precisely this reality entails that the proletarians themselves

to the huge problems from which we suffer.

believe themselves to be anything but proletarians. One is made

to believe that they are not proletarian because they are

Decades of counterrevolution and social peace have employed, another believes that they are not because they are

quartered the proletariat, maximizing the processes and unemployed, those from further off feel themselves to be

mechanisms of capitalist reproduction which veil the very farmers as opposed to workers, another believes themself to be

existence of the social classes (above all that of the proletariat) a merchant because they are a street vendor, many others feel

as such dismembering the unitary critique developed too young or too old to be proletarians, there will be those also

historically by this social class. The same capitalist totality upon who because they are women feel less concerned by the

which the reality which we live in unfolds appears fragmented question of their class, or feel racial oppression to be more

by a series of ideologies which particularize each problem that determinant than that of class and instead of feeling like a black

this system creates, seeking a particular solution to each one of proletarian, latino proletarian or asian proletarian, feel black,

them. Consequently, specific movements are launched which latino, or asian... and for those who overcome these most

approach these partial problems and try to resolve them. But not elemental forms of immediate negation of the proletarian

only isn't there any solution possible to every problem taken reality there will be other more political-ideological forms of

separately, but furthermore this fragmentation at the same time this same negation such as that of feeling "anti-imperialist",

alters the real content of these problems. Like so was constituted "anti-neoliberal", "palestinian", "jewish", "cuban", "leftist",

the ideology of the man's oppression of woman, the oppression "french", "yankee", "aymara", "kurdish", "croatian", "first-world

of the white race over the other races, the destruction of nature worker", "feminist", "anti-racist", etc.

by the human being..., codifying reality under these ideological

These identitarian conceptions present themselves as

parameters. In struggling by means of a partial category, the

social-democratic

forces which oppose the process of the

distinct movements situate on the plane of specific groups which

compete between themselves for a greater recognition of rights constitution of the proletariat as a class to negate the

on part of the state. The competition between commodities is catastrophe of this world. The perspective of class is diluted as

expressed politically as the competition between separate such in an entanglement of identities and fictitious

identities, all in benefit of the "transversal" politics of value and communities which live subsumed in the community of money.

its governmental management. Like so the unitary critique of

At the same time, politicism continues to be one of the

capital is displaced, a critique which contains at its core the

denunciation of each aspect, not as a particularity but as an essential ideologies against our class. It reduces the question of

expression of a totality which determines each part, and social transformation to occupying the State, be it by the

electoral path, be it by violence, in order to implant a series of

questions the social order which reproduces all these problems.

measures which "would question the capitalist society" and

The development of this society is closely linked to the would offer a "real and immediate alternative". But the State is

development of the isolated individual. The generalized not a neutral organ which can be used according to the will of

mercantile society excludes and dissolves all community which this or that leader or party, it's the organization as a force of the

is not the community of money and develops everything which current society, that of capital, and whoever it is that takes

maximizes the social isolation. Everything which it unites it possession of this State is determined to act within the

unites in separation, that is the essence of this world, and its capitalist framework. Far from directing the state, they are

manner of living, democracy. The effect which this reality directed by it. Therefore all the politicist measures are no more

provokes in the human community, destroying its social nature, than different forms of the development of capital that don't

atomizing it into isolated individuals with opposing interests, is question any of the foundations of this society or present any

increasingly more terrible. The citizen is today the luminous type of real alternative. Look at Cuba, Venezuela or the current

independentist process in Catalonia.Self-management is postulated as an alternative to

politicism; nevertheless it's nothing more than its replica upon

the productive terrain. If politicism reduces everything to the

public sphere, self-management does the same in the

productive sphere, trying to change the world without

destroying power, advocating for the producers to take the

means of production, just as they exist, in order to make them

function without bosses, without the bourgeoisie. But this

"alternative" keeps the social basis of capitalism intact, since

under it there continues the development of autonomous units

of commodity production, exchange, money (or "time bonds",

"labor vouchers"), meaning, capital, exploitation and all the

fundamental categories of this society. To consider that the

exploitation and the capitalist oppression emanate from the

individual bourgeois is to not comprehend that the bourgeois is

a functionary of capital, that capital, as "automatic subject", is

that which directs production. The experiences in Argentina at

the beginning of the 21st century with the "recuperated"

factories, or others more current like Rojava and its

cooperatives, show us how self management is capable of

liquidating our struggles and giving new vigor to the capitalist

economy. Self management just as much as politicism leave

intact the capitalist social relationship which must be

destroyed.

Of course, for the maintenance of this society it's also

essential to make believe that all those of us who suffer the

current terrible living conditions have a lesser evil to defend.

There's always something worse to look at which justifies the

submission to the current society, the more or less critical

support of the representatives of capital, or the renunciation of

the struggle for any small crumb. Someone who lives in the

asphyxiating capitalist social peace is shown the terror of war;

Those who cede their life to work in order to eat are shown the

unemployed with no resources who are at the breaking point in

hunger; to those who want to act outside of and against the union

political game "other forms of doing politics" and the

"infallibility" of "direct democracy" is extolled; to those that

question the left it is shown how bad the right is; to another they

say that democracy is better than dictatorship; those that struggle

are incited to abandon the struggle after receiving any small

crumb... Like so it is hidden that everything forms a part of the

same, that they are moments of the same existence subsumed to

wage labor, to money, to value.

process demands in order to become submerged in a possibilist

and localist dynamic without any perspective, which ruptures the

unity of the immediate struggles of our class (the struggle

against the austerity measures, against the evictions, against the

repression, expropriations...) from the historical struggle for the

revolution.

It's certain that the conditions of life of the proletariat bring

it to overcome these obstacles over and over again and affirm

itself as a class, violently opposing the current society, in spite of

all the weaknesses which we bear. Nevertheless, the local

framework is hardly surpassed, and only as an exception is a

regional one assumed. The rest of the worldwide proletariat is

not concerned by these struggles, doesn't assume the fight which

develops in one place or the other as its own fight. So an infinite

amount of struggles develop in complete isolation, which are

finally repolarized and/or crushed by global capital (Syria,

Brazil, the Mapuches...). This issue reminds us constantly that

our class cannot generate a more revolutionary perspective than

assuming its struggle on a historical-universal plane. Proletarian

internationalism is not a nice motto of the past, but the very

terrain upon which the revolutionary struggle unfolds.

In spite of all these difficulties, in spite of all these forces

and elements which act against the constitution of the proletariat

as a revolutionary force, there's no other perspective, there's no

other exit from the capitalist catastrophe than the social

revolution. We don't have doubts that the capitalist catastrophe

will continue advancing and making life on this planet

increasingly more impossible. Neither do we have doubts that

the struggles of our class will continue reproducing themselves

here and there. Nevertheless, what's fundamental is not to

perceive this evidence, but to assume and structure these

struggles as one same international struggle to tear down

capitalism, using the accumulated historical experience to

overcome our own limits and weaknesses, as well as to denounce

everything which impedes international and internationalist

action against capital and the State. It's the only real route to

defend human needs against those of capital. The reforms, the

hopes and dreams which justify the rejection of the revolution,

are nothing more than forces for the conservation of the current

world. We don't have any other path to exit from this pit than to

denounce and smash these mechanisms for the defense of

capitalism which obstruct the organization of our community of

struggle. To organize ourselves together --outside of and against

all the structures of the State-- in the struggle against this system

of death, in the defense of human needs against those of capital,

in the affirmation of humanity against the capitalist

objectification. Everything else is walking towards the abyss to

which this society drives us.

Where the proletarians rebel, launch themselves against the

hell in which they live, like the struggles developed recently in

Nicaragua or in Iran, global capital seeks to deny the

revolutionary perspective and impose the capitalist inclination in

its multiple variants. It tries to enclose the struggles and

transform them into struggles against this or that government,

The affirmation of the human being against the absolute

this or that dictator, against this or that measure or arrangement, dehumanization which the proletarian condition contains, this is

tries to transform the revolts of our class into war between the essence of the constitution of the proletariat as a class in

bourgeois projects, to negate all questioning of this system and order to negate the social classes, the State and capital.

so absorb everything which opposes it. The summum of this

repolarization is the imperialist war in which the struggle of the

proletariat is driven to a struggle between bourgeois fractions,

Let's organize the struggle of our class internationally,

just like we currently endure in Syria, just in like other countries

against the global catastrophe of capitalism, against the

in the last decades.

whole society of classes!

These factors and limits of the current struggles, which

imply that all the struggles end up channeled, liquidated or

revitalizing capital, extend the belief in the impossibility of a

social revolution. This belief becomes a material force for the

conservation of this world, driving many of those who struggle

to draw back from that which an international revolutionary

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