Editorial
September 2016
Somewhat disorientated , we find ourselves facing an ambiguous and contradictory situation . When one tries to observe the world surrounding us , to analyse the evolution of the relations of exploitation and domination in the current times , one cannot but acknowledge that many “ certainties ” are being turned upside down . The social State , for decades the favourite model of capital to continue to generate profit and assuring at the same time relative social peace , is in full disintegration . Migration movements have taken on such dimensions that in less than a year , in certain European countries , a whole new layer of proletarians , or more precisely , excluded , has been added to the population . War , which was always present as domination is always waging war against the excluded and oppressed , came to affirm itself in a more brutal way : jihadist hits in the European metropolis , a swift militarisation of the streets of the capitals , a repressive reinforcement that won ’ t take a step back any more . And while everybody is called upon to take part in one way or another , the restructuring is going through phases of instability and vulnerability , the bets are taking on other dimensions .
At the same time , while the conditions of the clash are modifying , certain horizons have moved an inch . The big march forward of technological development of domination seems hardly to experience any difficulties . The programs for construction and restructuring of the unmissable infrastructures for production , consumption , control , war and alienation : new high tension lines , extension of the high speed train network and air transport , dissemination on the territory of structures , relays , antennas ever more powerful to allow the continuous flow of data and communication , exploitation of new energetic resources through fracking , the building of new pipelines for gas and petrol , of new nuclear power plants , of wind parks , of solar panel parks , of hydro-electrical dams ,… And on the other hand , capital is pushing the limits of exploitation further , overcoming old contradictions and creating new ones . The research programs for nanotechnology for example are intervening on the level of the singular atom as to manipulate materials , in the biotechnology laboratories the synthetic biology is completely changing the common perception of the organic and the living , ever more faster computers are allowing research programs which need enormous capacities for calculation ( and of which the results will become fearsome tools for the perpetuation of order ) on genetics , DNA , the mapping of the human brain , the real world dimension analysis ( through the date generated by information and communication technologies ) of human behaviour .
Facing this contradictory and ambiguous situation , between modification and continuity , disorientation is not only hitting the exploited and the excluded ( sinking away in confusion , loosing any point of reference that is not created by domination , adhering to apocalyptic religious sectarianisms ), it is also hitting the anarchists . In the unleashed storm , with lighting striking and the sea is becoming wild ( and where the continuity is , precisely , the sea of domination ), what could be our compass to continue to navigate , that is to say , to stay on the offensive , to take the initiative ? The experiences of the past ? The history books about the great struggles of the worker ’ s movement and its anarchist component ? The sometimes astonishing adventures of the autonomous groups of thirty years ago , acting in a context of restructuring totally different that the one of today ? A bit unsatisfying , no ? But still , these experiences contain an element which can provide us with the material to build our compass . The anarchist ideas , the identification of all power as the enemy to destroy , always and everywhere , the insurrectional methodology which could be summarised to self-organisation , permanent conflictuality and attack . That ’ s one element , and one should defend it , deepen it , cherish it : staying at daggers drawn with the existent , its defenders and its false critiques like the new leninists of today , the partisans of alliances and political compositions , the tacticians of possibilism and the quantitative logics .
But ideas do not suffice . The will to fight , the courage to confront the horrors of this world , the decision to attack are equally necessary . But also them do not
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