A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #22-25 - The Long Summer of Anarchy (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The fiery pall within which we move seems to extinguish all hope. The 
anvil of the sun strikes everyone, especially those living in difficult 
circumstances, those who perform manual labor outdoors or in unhealthy 
conditions, and the most vulnerable. The relentless and hopeless weather 
seems a paradigm of the human condition, in a society incapable of 
satisfying the basic needs of the population, incapable of guaranteeing 
the minimum conditions for the preservation of life on Earth, incapable 
of ensuring peaceful coexistence.

A world without a future.

The failures of 20th-century revolutions have contributed to the 
construction of this imagery: bloodily suppressed by imperialist 
reaction, like the Spanish Revolution, or degenerated into a more or 
less complete restoration of capitalism, as occurred in Russia, China, 
and Cuba.

A lucid critique of these experiences is important to foster a new faith 
in a future that has the legs to realize its potential. The parties that 
won government in those failed revolutions were convinced that the 
development of productive forces would allow the transition to 
communism, the society of abundance. Therefore, their goal was to 
conquer government: they were convinced that, from the control room, 
they could accelerate economic development, which in turn would destroy 
capitalist relations of production and the resulting social and cultural 
superstructure, including the state. To achieve this goal, they spared 
no one. The working class, the peasants, and all of society were thrown 
into the meat grinder of production; to achieve this, gigantic 
apparatuses of control and repression were created, but the long-awaited 
emancipation never arrived. The bureaucracy controlled the distribution 
of social surplus value, and it is inevitable that in a situation of 
still-escalating scarcity, such a concentration of social surplus in the 
hands of a central administration would result in the granting of 
significant privileges to its members.

Today, humanity faces two tragedies. On the one hand, rising hunger and 
poverty necessitate increased production of goods and services for mass 
consumption; on the other, the environmental crisis requires a reduction 
in production. Faced with this dual challenge, governments and 
intergovernmental institutions are powerless, or rather, choose not to 
act. Thus, on the one hand, millions of people die from poverty, while 
on the other, millions die from the environmental emergency. Meanwhile, 
governments are more concerned with waging war among themselves, 
squandering the Earth's resources on armaments and causing further 
civilian deaths.

It is up to anarchism to show the way out of these tragedies, first by 
stripping the tools of domination from those incapable of using them to 
solve problems-that is, governments. Daily experience shows us that 
government is the body least capable of responding to the needs of the 
masses and solving the environmental crisis.

The anarchist movement, present in today's society and actively engaged 
in social struggles, strives to build organizations for the 
self-management of struggles, organizations that will form the 
foundation of future society. Starting from this activity, it will be 
possible to rebuild society based on free associations of producers and 
consumers, without a two-track politics, but by immediately implementing 
as much of the new social organization as possible. From the outset, the 
new society must see every person, united by a conscious, experienced, 
and constructed solidarity, voluntarily cooperating with others for 
mutual well-being. Anarchism hopes that society will be constituted with 
the aim of providing all human beings with the means to achieve the 
greatest possible well-being, the greatest possible moral and material 
development. Then we will be able to experience the long summer of anarchy.

Tiziano Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/la-lunga-estate-dellanarchia/
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