A reflection on the demonstration on 05/15/1911 Before the accelerated deterioration of the multidimensional crisis we are experiencing, is entirely understandable and desirable that there is a growing number of people who want to publicly and collectively express their opposition to the destructive path it is taking society and its rejection of political farce, the economic impoverishment and social injustice. We therefore think that participation in events such as "Real Democracy Now" is better than being in political apathy and passivity in the current situation. However, we also need to spend energy to drive this kind of mobilization is worse than aimed at building a new kind of movement, thought historically, strategically and fundamentally articulated transformer allow to leave behind the oligarchic system and eco-destructive currently established and heteronomous and individualistic mentality prevalent today, creating a new form of social organization genuinely democratic and truly ecological and autonomous cooperative mindset. As we argue below, the expression of 15-M can not give rise to a movement of this kind can not even be an integral part of it, since neither the aims nor the strategy aimed at this purpose.
Beyond the wording of the manifesto that, I must say, is ambiguous, vague and naive, the platform that drives this movement has made a number of proposals concrete could be considered the core "program" behind the call. This is a set of measures (to increase control over the political class and tax havens, raise taxes on banks and big fortunes, to increase the recruitment of health workers and teachers, the obligation to hold referendums on policy decisions important to provide economic assistance to the unemployed and all low-income people, make a deal of work based on the reduction of working hours, etc..) that we consider inadequate and / or utopian for the following reasons:
a) are insufficient proposals reformist character, since at no time challenged or try to replace the current system's fundamental institutions, namely the "democratic" state representative and the capitalist market economy, but merely claim some improvements. However, the widespread and multidimensional crisis we are experiencing today is not due to malfunctioning of these institutions but to their own idiosyncrasies. The dynamics inherent in the market economy and state "representative" give rise to a huge and growing concentration of power that can not be reversed through simple cosmetic changes. Thus, assuming that a persistent and arduous struggle managed to implement some popular of the suggested reforms, they could not do anything but print a slightly slower pace of progress in ongoing multidimensional crisis as it inevitably should be compatible with the functioning and dynamics of the current system, which, would be quite ridiculous at compared to the strong development of the multidimensional crisis caused by this system. We therefore believe that it is inappropriate to advocate for social injustice, the vast economic inequality and political usurpation are painted with a new coat of paint "democratic" and / or "ethics", but it is clearly necessary for the abolition bet the current system, the primary cause of adverse and perverse behavior that we suffer today, and for that, give birth to a new truly democratic system in all areas.
b) proposals are utopian not only because, as usual in this type of approach, gives no clear and realistic idea of \u200b\u200bhow these measures would impose on the ruling elites who have the upper hand, but above all because they completely overlook these measures radically contravene the logic and dynamics of the current system. The energy that powers the current system is economic growth and commercialization, so that states and businesses around the world seek to maximize growth rate of GDP and profit figures respectively. A state or a company that does not follow this logic of pursuing economic growth through increased competitiveness / efficiency, rapidly enter the path of the crisis and dissolution. Knowing this, governments worldwide are struggling to pass laws and reforms aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the country, which means, obviously, greater exploitation of its human and natural resources, and therefore, greater job insecurity , social insecurity, psychological distress and environmental destruction. Today, in addition, both states and companies worldwide are finding increasingly difficult to continue to increase their GDP and profit figures and therefore are trying to compete at all costs, ie, cutting, impoverished and rapidly destroying the lives of the vast majority of the population. We can not close our eyes to this core feature of our times: there is an irreconcilable conflict growing between the needs of people and the planet, on the one hand, and the needs of the economic system, on the other. This conflict can only be solved with a winner. Or win the natural and human needs, leading to a system to democratic satisfaction thereof, or While earning the needs of state and capitalist system now established, ie, their dynamics based on the senseless pursuit of unlimited economic growth and the steady increase in the concentration of power. Any proposals that ignore this fundamental conflict is unavoidable and utopian and tomfoolery.
Moreover, as evidenced by their statements, the convener of this mobilization platform becomes an accomplice to the distortion and misrepresentation of the word democracy when he suggests that what makes democratic society is not only corruption and the unchecked power that corporations and corporate financial transnational. However, it is not just what makes living in an oligarchic society, but also plays an important role of the state's existence, that is, a centralized bureaucratic apparatus and separate from the public and in a dominant position on this. The state calls itself "democratic" to try to legitimize itself, obviously not to be an institution that actually confers real power to people to decide on the affairs of the public sphere. It is completely wrong, therefore, attribute the lack of democracy only to political corruption and the domination of the economic powers on the authorities "public" itself essence of "democratic" is deeply representative oligarchy. To claim really true democracy must fight for the abolition of this institution and its replacement by a new system of democratically run communities through public meetings, Confederate by responsible and revocable delegates.
In conclusion, we believe that the inadequacy and utopian proposals for the platform that calls for the manifestation of "Real Democracy Now" and its implicit collusion with the distortion of the meaning of the term "democracy", makes this call is, in the best case, a space-time that, like many others, used to display and express rejection of many people to the general crisis of the contemporary world and, at worst, a byproduct of processing to channel the will of some people towards objectives almost always illusory and always insufficient. GADIA
Catalunya (Source: http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/?q=node/17634)
ALBACETE Libertarian Youth.
