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We live in a capitalist regime
Persecuciones - July 2015 - Bolivia

[Excerpt from Persecuciones II published by Flores del
Kaos]
Some words from Flores del Kaos
[…]
The system of domination, that we are confronting and
which represses us, is gigantic and its tentacles mutate
every day. Saying this we do not want to be pessimistic, but rather realistic. The constant reformist changes disguised as revolutionary, contribute in nourishing
each tentacle of the system that is extending its hold
over us.
The advance is so frightening that sometimes it tends
to confuse us to the point of not being able to visualize
and focus on the enemy, to confound practices and strategies or simply to not see that devastating, suffocating
big brother eye. The advances typically have two faces,
one marking a strong and menacing presence, demonstrating power and authority, engendering fear at the
same time as the total rejection, anger, rage etc. And
on the other hand, more subtle, creepy, from beneath,
slowly, blending in, quietly crawling as a camouflaged
snake sugarcoating lips with beautiful flavours, charming the eyes with pretty colours and mellow melodies
that confuse our hatred.

For example, the strong increase and acceptance of
optical fibre by the vast majority of people in the regions of the highlands, obviously without disturbing
the beautiful landscape of the Andes which is the tourist-economic sustenance. Many of these communities
completely lost their autonomy, putting aside the practices and teachings of ancient knowledge, to simply resell handicrafts. The system here is advancing silently,
below the ground, installing large axes of wires so that
there is internet and communication, but above all to
establish surveillance and control. Obviously all this
without losing its charm in the eyes of citizens and the
tourism industry.
Elsewhere entire communities are devastated by
deforesting their lands, by evicting, displaying the
strong hand. That is causing the rejection of many
who “are in solidarity” with them, but always respecting the rules of the same domination that they
pretend to question, and whom are the first to believe in democratic “improvements” that are thrown
around like crumbs.
To partialize struggles and even support “processes of
change” typical of the authoritarian left also when they
come in the guise of autonomy, freedom, revolution and
leftist concepts like popular power etc., just wears us
down, and feeds subtle forms of domination that will be
accepted by the blind and submissive majority.

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