INDEX
Publishing. regret not, kill it.
the holidays have passed.
Shakespeare: about Francisco Camps and Esperanza Aguirre.
Communism and capitalism.
Albert Einstein. Walter Benjamin. Montaigne. TSEliot
H. Marcusse. Saramago. Raymond Williams.
Views on Karl Kraus.
Juan Goytisolo. Elias Canetti. Walter Benjamin.
Collaborations.
Carlos Taibo: The diagnoses of the crisis.
EDITORIAL.
regret not, kill it.
was an ad several years ago. Incitement to terrorism exercised, that if, on some kind of insect, cockroach or cojonera fly. "I think the ad whenever I hear someone complaining about the government, church, banking, everything that affect the economic life of the citizens, however rare they are those who lament the decline of cultural life, ethics, human degradation.
-holding practice, the complaint resigned, implying the gossip and submissive acceptance of the facts, if any curses accompanied by the media who signaled as the only culprits, so common to the alienated people formed and brutalized by the media, especially television, I guess cause hilarity and satisfaction is not contained, industrialists and merchants, clergy, judges, politicians. The Church, the most wise and long-lived institution the powers that rule the world, preaching meekness, submissive resignation to ensure eternal life, why should it suffer in the earthly (not them, of course). Cynicism, demagoguery, political and moral misery to maintain exploitation of man by man, but by the dominant powers, unusual language nowadays even for organizations that call themselves leftists.
why we should learn from the ads, do not forget that advertising is the messenger of God, ie the market, which now governs our lives. And look for special cleansers to not continue the charade.
the holidays have passed.
counterrevolutionary There is nothing more harmful to the development of the peoples who practice year after year, century after century, cults, not only religious, but the holidays. Customs that are inherited from ancient times, and repeat for escape everyday problems that plague, chain to humans. The festivities are marked cultural habits which UNCEN organizers and practitioners sometimes for an entire year, as essential to escape the work that binds them and explodes, not only economically but also culturally, in the days of his life. Celebration of the holy place, religious processions, carnival days, or the trading day of the mother, father, lovers, work, the flag, diseases, etc, etc. Many are the paths that lead to alienation, alienation, destruction of thought, also free. And these also help to prevent the regeneration of the political, cultural, social, with the necessary imaginative practice daily struggle. (An example: the issue of pensions: instead of striving to change the working conditions and regulations for a lifetime, is mounted around a circus if delayed one or two years of retirement, when there is hardly a breath weakened body to hasten their last breaths. It puts words emphasis on the misery that is the human being to exhaust its existence with a background that no longer seems charity towards developing non-exploitative conditions for what is his whole life).
The parties, particularly the institutional organization serving more harm there, churches are of God are, in our country the longest are the Christmas and Easter.
When humanity will learn to break free from their chains and human beings to think and organize leisure culture itself?.
Shakespeare: about Francisco Camps and Esperanza Aguirre.
" My issues in this state have led me to look at Vienna, where I found a corruption that boils and bubbles to overflow the pot. The city has laws to all corruption, it is true, but these faults are so well protected, that our provisions are similar to bans hanging in a barber shop: they are read to make fun of them.
Measure for Measure, V).
transcriber's note: Vienna amounts to Valencia and Madrid.
Communism and Capitalism.
ALBERT EINSTEIN.
I think the worst damage done by capitalism is the deterioration of individuals. It instills in students an exaggerated competitive attitude, are educated in purchasing success in preparation for their future career. I am convinced that there is only one way to mastering these great evils, which passes through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system that is oriented toward social objectives (...) The achievement of socialism requires the solution of certain socio-political problems great difficulty from the fundamental centralization of political and economic power. How will prevent bureaucracy from becoming an entity omnipotent and arrogant? How can you protect individual rights in order to ensure a democratic counterweight to balance the power of the bureaucracy?
1944. Monthley Review. New York.
Communism Is he dead? should better ask: can die ideas or is his deification, his usurpation, its implementation and development of dogma that passeth away and dies? Can you die of laughter, tears, doubt, beauty, or are always on the verge of transformation? Have the extinction of the reasons that lead to the denunciation of corruption, exploitation of men and peoples, social inequality, war, torture, religion, fanaticism, unfair justice? That is the question, the debate is not today, misery for a lot of practice, and evil consequences which caused the political application of the concept communism. In 1927, Walter Benjamin, so often resorted to in these pages for consistency with Karl Kraus, wrote some thoughts about his stay in Moscow. He said inter alia:
WALTER BENJAMIN:
"European If the correlation of power and money infiltrate was reached in Russia, would not only lost the country, even the party, but directly to communism. People here still do not have European concepts of European consumption and consumer needs. But it is also possible that you are making a keen intention of the Match: come to equate the level of consumption in Western Europe has.
remember facing lines that led, shortly before World War II in the strain of thought and the strategy of communism agony of Lenin, Bukharin, NEP and Stalin on the one hand, control of absolute power, police state, persecution of any revolutionary idea and terror applied as a defense of the absolute power and anti-Marxist. He missed the communism in Russia. And its inhabitants, at least, emerged from the ashes of that common denominator, live on the uncontrolled, more voracious and corrupt even than capitalism, while most are limited in different degrees of poverty, to dream with him. Returning to the old story: haves and have-nots, despots and subjects.
orthodox communist parties and the party of the century is not reflected in their squalid programs but what makes Montaigne wrote no fewer than four centuries, reflecting the stagnation of ideas.
MONTAIGNE:
We assume a world already made and shaped in certain ways (...) Whatever way we can fix it and order it again, just can twist his habitual inclination without breaking everything. Solon asked if he had given the best laws that could be expected to Athenians: I think so, responded, of whom have admitted. "
In cities where the law of the ferocious capitalism, neoliberalism more exploitative, circulating thousands and thousands of citizens to their places of work, in subways, trains, cluttering their grips, foot, underground mood. I remember seeing a poem The Waste Land TS Eliot. They should read, in silence, the silence in which they live. He says some of his verses.
TS ELIOT.
Unreal City,
under the brown fog of a winter dawn.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many
not thought death had undone so many.
exhaled sighs, short and infrequent.
And everyone had their eyes fixed on his feet.
and sang in the last embers of closed cases and thoughts about what from the school, parliaments, newspapers and pulpits were taught: "communism is dead, long live, long live the farm of capitalism. Marcusse
"The technical reason has been political reasons. In the technological medium of culture, politics, and economics come together in a pervasive system that eats or reject all the alternatives.
The Dimensional Man
"Not just a specific form of government or party rule makes it possible to totalitarianism, but also a specific system of production and distribution may well be compatible with a" plurality of parties, newspapers, countervailing powers " .
The more capable are the rulers to divide property consumption, more people will be linked strongly to the various government bureaucracies. (...) Under the repressive government of all, freedom can become a powerful instrument of domination. People recognize their goods. (...) The advanced industrial culture is in a specific sense, more ideological predecessor, while ideology is now in the production process itself.
Democratic Totalitarianism.
Jose Saramago.
At times I thought about the fact that I still communist. Of course I am and I can not imagine myself being anything else. But I've realized I needed to add something to that saying: I am a Communist, and I'm adding is that I am a libertarian communist.
RAYMOND WILLIAMS
The political aim of the new capitalism, and governments that support it, is clear. Is to conceal the real conflict, dissolving into a false political consensus, that of not building a true community of life and interests, but a false cordiality among all social groups. Political consensus is essential for the success of the new capitalism is, in essence, a handling policy, the policy of management of man and as such, profoundly undemocratic.
May Day Manifesto. 1968
Views on Karl Kraus.
Juan Goytisolo.
To highlight poverty and the cacophony of political speeches, economic, advertising, or worse, "culturally correct" now invade us, just play them selectively, without any comment (.. .) Cannibalism of the copyist assimilates the universal language of idiocy, deconstructing through its most significant appointments. This procedure was elevated to the rank of masterpiece by writer Viennese Karl Kraus. Much of the work of Kraus the father of this famous aphorism: "In the beginning was the press, then the world" - is based precisely on the ideological appropriation of the discourse of others, in the manner of Cervantes ... and Flaubert. A literary company of the stature and quality of the author's The Last Days of Humanity shows, a posteriori, that the "foolishness" of Bouvard and Pecuchet was not unique, as they copied and treasured Kraus selected quotes a kind of jewelry box or drawer of monsters with a strategy that puts the racking ertainly the processes underlying the Folly, the commonplace and the "truths" universally accepted. Karl Kraus was unknowingly Flaubert, Cervantes and Flaubert was, even with knowledge of the facts. Kraus's work falls against the false currency of the avant
Elias Canetti.
of Karl Kraus learned that you can do anything with the words of another. He operated at a breakneck pace with what he read. He was a master of accusing others with their own words, which did not mean that then they save their own version of the indictment. Both practiced and beaten everybody.
Walter Benjamin
What are the most accurate newspaper reports in comparison with spooky accuracy with which Die Fackel exposes the legal facts, linguistic and political? Kraus
never fails to defend an opinion. As the view is that false subjectivity is inseparable from the person to put in circulation and in its quality merchandise.
The press is not a servant but as the event. So once again the instrument has slipped from our hands (...) The newspaper is an instrument of power who serves capitalism (...) If the high end not only degrades the newspaper, but also its means of that power that defeat will not have to wait for a new total humanity flourish (...) No other man was better honor silence. Karl Kraus dance the war dance before the mausoleum of the German language ... has become the guardian of the tomb and guard it there, night and day. There is no other place you have never defended with such skill, nor anyone else has been more lost ... What could be more desperate than his violent struggle against the press? (...) Who butt is already sentenced Kraus: there, in his mouth a name becomes a conviction.
postscript. Happy today Jiménez Losantos, Juan Manuel de Prada, Ussía Alfonso, Cesar Alonso de los Rios, Herman Terchst, Valentin Puig, Rosa Montero, Elvida Lindo, Isabel San Sebastián, Pío Moa, David Gistau, César Vidal, many more ... Our unfortunate historical present does not exist in the world of communication if Karl Kraus. And the torch is just trying to turn a dark night and thought unfree.
Carlos Taibo. Diagnosis of the crisis two
Within the left who want to resist is put forward two very different views regarding the status of the crisis that grips us by all parties. These two visions differ substantially when assessing the degree of corrosion of capitalism and do well when it comes to whether or not to critical relief to the environmental dimension of the crisis in question. As is easy to see, refer, in short, disparate perceptions regarding what are the main tasks that we undertake.
1. The first of these views - which I do mine - part of the certainty that capitalism, in a state of terminal corrosion, dramatically lost the emergency brakes in the past, and in some circumstances, allowed him to save face. Not only that: is no longer efficient system - the operator, unfair and exclusionary, yes, but time efficient - it was in the past. And is that what is at stake now is not just the scale of exploitation historically linked to the logic of capitalism: a dimension is added that the consequences of a system that always predatory and wasteful, has come to seriously injure the rights of future generations. So, the economic growth of our pathetic rulers claim is accompanied by a dramatic setback in social cohesion, environmental assaults without number, of active processes of resource depletion and unpublished formulas the ferocious exploitation of poor countries. All this is easy to see once it gives multiple meanings to the word 'crisis' and avoids the mechanical fast identification of this with the 'financial' to incorporate a serious consideration of phenomena such as climate change stabbing, the inevitable price increases in the prices of most raw materials we use energy, global deterioration of the condition of women or the further plundering of the human and material resources in the South.
being so, and if nothing changes, be prepared to which sooner or later - shirk the details, always sensitive as to the time of manifestation of the phenomenon - will be a drift towards authoritarianism, and desperate, as a sort of social Darwinism military. Is only appropriate then, on our side, and within this diagnosis, two answers. If the first states that we must fight for their leave of capitalism as such - not only of capitalism 'desregulado' - the second, more skeptical in regard to our capabilities, is inclined to expect a collapse causing a sudden enlightenment among much of the members of the human species. It is easy to see, of course, the latter horizon, with the collapse of the middle, raises outlook very delicate.
things as may be, those who embrace this first view considered inexcusable that any program of emancipation openly question the order of capitalist property, claims the self-management, try to create new autonomous areas away from the dominant system, bet in the core countries on strategies and lead to decrease in short, the organization from the ground up with frank suspicion of what unfortunately is cooked under the most parties and unions, and pursuant to the elections and their plots.
2. The second of the vision - shared by the majority of parties and unions that I mentioned - from diagnosis seems inclined to see some vitality, yet, in capitalism this time. Under this perception, corrosion would be much lower, so it would make sense to bet on a return to status quo before the crisis. This would, in other words, to reconstruct, in the rich world, the many elements of welfare states under attack in recent years / decades. In this sense and see things as they see them, it seems difficult to describe this project without linking expressly with what they have always been of social proposals accordingly. And that if they provide, at a time when the weather starts to cut, so polite attention as skeptical of the idea that the reconstruction of welfare states would be only a first step towards more ambitious path of horizons.
I fear that - as opposed to unsubstantiated accusations of radicalism that commonly receives the first of the visions, and annotated - the second collection, regardless of building a bridge of silver pathetic capitalism to reconsider and rectify it, is an illusory project ignores the reality of the moment present. And it is based on significant omissions. While the current system, on the one hand, seems unwilling to accept this return to the past, on the other welfare state is a formula clearly linked with capitalism and unthinkable, therefore, outside the latter. Should we bet in these conditions, as pathetic as a project which would aim to create new-style capitalists, suddenly civilized? Not worth emphasizing, moreover, that the welfare state is an institution's own wealthy North and, as such, it seems difficult to sustain a formula in a scene marked by the rule - I now strongly on ecological - that has embraced capitalism historically given to the task so proud ignore environmental limits and resources of the planet.
This second view seems, moreover, hampered by its noticeable distressingly shortsighted and electoral branches, and, where appropriate, for being a simple response, as inertial as moderate to attack. This would, in other words, to perform the task they have preferred to avoid, sunk in the magma neoliberal, socialist parties that have abandoned their primitive social programs. Is not necessary to add that, whatever the perception that concerns us assume all the game systems as long as the reappearance of the lost control, drag an atavistic disdain for anything that smells, really, out of capitalism and, at the time, wary of the program elements - questioning the order of existing property, self, creation of autonomous spaces, decrease, grassroots organization - which I linked a few lines back to the first of the visions. Behind the scenes what is an oblivion conjecture: that there is a serious risk that everything collapses when we place our attention on the welfare states and ignore the huge relief of the combination of ecological crisis and social exclusion.
3. Does anyone seriously think that limiting ourselves to fight to keep wages and employment will solve the major problems that beset us? Does anyone considers it to get a union speech left many years ago in the attic the word 'exploitation' and 'alienation'? Does anyone really think that makes perfect sense that sad task that economists seem given the official left no neoliberalized: to underline that there are ways to increase productivity that fail to reduce wages and pensions frozen, without discussing then the main thing, that is, own senselessness of these formidable scams are highly productive and with it, competitiveness and growth?
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