A-Infos (en) Brazil, Capixaba, FACA: The crisis is permanent, the only way out is horizontal. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The crisis of capital is not an accident, a passing phase, or a cyclical 
hiccup that will be resolved with well-intentioned adjustments. It is 
its essence, its permanent mode of being. Capitalism thrives on the 
uninterrupted exploitation of bodies, territories, and affections; its 
"stability" is merely the tense silence between one social catastrophe 
and another. Every day of normal functioning of this system is a day of 
crisis for the exploited majority-a crisis of housing, food, mental 
health, and meaning. Recognizing this chronic character of devastation 
is the first step towards abandoning the illusion of patchwork solutions 
and acknowledging that the only adequate response is a radically new 
organization that refuses to be domesticated.

The formulas offered to us for over a century have already proven their 
failure. The vanguard party, which promised to seize the State and 
emancipate the working class, has become synonymous with authoritarian 
bureaucracy, the execution of dissidents, and state capitalism. 
Institutionalized unionism, with its negotiating leadership and pension 
funds, has learned to manage misery while stifling the spontaneous 
revolt of the factory floor. Social democracy, with its paradise of 
temporary rights financed by the exploitation of the Global South, has 
proven to be a fragile truce, dismantled unceremoniously as soon as 
accumulation demanded it. All these recipes stem from the same poison: 
the concentration of power, the delegation of the struggle to 
specialists, the belief that a few can decide for everyone. We have 
already tested hierarchy under all its guises-and it has invariably 
returned to us new chains.

The organization of the exploited, to confront a war that never ceases, 
needs to be as vibrant and widespread as the attack itself. It needs to 
be horizontal, where each voice has real weight and decisions spring 
from grassroots assemblies, not from illuminated offices. It needs to be 
based on solidarity, because the competition that capital injects into 
us is the greatest ally of domination; we need mutual support that makes 
survival a collective act of affection and resistance. Self-managed, so 
that the struggle may be, from now on, the seed of the world we want: 
without bosses, without managers of the revolution, without those who 
command and those who obey. This is not a naive utopia, but the concrete 
practice of those who, in land and housing occupations, in community 
kitchens, in autonomous pickets and in care networks, already 
demonstrate that another social architecture is possible, here and now, 
under the ruins of the present.

The other promises are buried. State socialism collapsed in the 20th 
century, leaving a legacy of gulags and disillusionment. Electoral 
reformism has become the manager of the crisis, applauding deforestation 
while distributing crumbs. Anarchism remains for us, not as a dogma of 
the past, but as the only compass that insists on not exchanging freedom 
for the efficiency of the slaughterhouse. We are left with the web of 
complicity that cannot be captured by a corporate entity, ministry, or 
central committee. We are left with the courage to acknowledge that we, 
the precarious workers, the landless, the marginalized, the unwanted, 
are the ones who can-and must-direct our own steps, without asking 
permission from any authority above us. Everything that is not 
horizontal ends vertically upon our bodies.

Therefore, the invitation is not to join a party or applaud a leader-it 
is to take risks. To experiment with self-management in your occupation, 
in your neighborhood, in your workplace. To transform anger into direct 
action, without waiting for a committee's approval. To weave free and 
federated alliances that do not seek to seize power, but to dissolve it 
into thousands of communal bonds. Capital does not wait, the crisis does 
not give respite, and neither can we. Come with us to build a new world 
in the belly of the monster: a world where all worlds fit, without 
hierarchies, without fences, without fear. Take risks, experiment, and 
come with us!

Capixaba Anarchist Federation - FACA

https://federacaocapixaba.noblogs.org/post/2026/06/02/a-crise-e-permanente-a-unica-saida-e-horizontal/
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