"St.Auby Tamas" wrote:
> >From the Multitudes of Europe, Rising Up Against the Empire
> and Marching on Genoa (19-20 July 2001)
>
> We are new, and yet we are the same as always.
Still leading pogroms? (that "kill the usurers" thing, you know) Still cutting down
swathes of the the innocent in pursuit of the guilty? Still wallowing in conspiracy
theories? Still looking for enemies and making them wherever their numbers are too
few? If you speak to Serbians, Croats, Kosovars, they will all give you good
reasons to kill. There are no good reasons to kill.
And these movements are not all the same movement. They are not all the same;
rather, every historical moment is different, and those differences matter, they
matter a great deal. Hussites, for instance, were not particularly inflamed over
economic issues, but rather issues of religion. Luddites were angry about an
injustice visited particularly on them, not about economic justice in general. Etc.
Like most, I'm sure, I prefer a selfconstituted world. Ann-archy, I say, not
anarchy! That is, the social must always be a matter of hard negotiation among many
positions. No one group of people can be trusted to make all decisions, even if
they have all the good music. Only the realm of the private can be a paradise of a
single viewpoint.
The will of the People--the formerly disenfranchised, many of whom voted for the
very first time-- elected, in my home state of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, a
jumped-up member of the Jaquerie, or perhaps as it plays out in this historical
moment, the Jockery, who poses no danger to the people of the state in part because
of the buffering effect of a century or so of liberal democracy, and the soft
barriers of reluctance to do harm that grow up in that climate.
Tell me that the workers of Europe, enfranchised, well paid, unionized, are still
anarchists, marching into the future in their boots sewed by brown hands who take
home, at the end of the day, less than a tenth of our euroanarchist's salary. These
European marchers had best march beyond the borders of Europe to find the frontiers
of injustice.
What do you fluxlisters think about these issues? Is there a role for art in
rectifying injustices? Is is simply a feeble tool?
AK
