Moving means you have to start everything from zero again, you have to start your own activities, you have to learn the language and you have to make new friends, find your own spot, get down on it and make changes, as wherever you were before.
Andalusia is a difficult place to start something with, they speak spanish but andalusian spanish, not like any others, they generally have an attitude all over you, there’s wrong and right exist in their dinning table(well in all spain they have), you are suppose to eat things the way they agree with. There’s also serials of rules by making the actions, but well, it is like any other place, people expect you to do things as how they are used to, having trouble to convert yourself to the society? well, its not anybody else’s problem.
how can Spain be in action, as how i can explain.
Its the same thing with anarchist/punk all around the world, as my lovely comrade ucok from indonesia commented : they dont read.
It is hard to have a decent conversation with people, if they dont know how and what to critizie the capitalism and the economic crisis, the class struggle, becuase most of people are confused as hell, they know it is wrong, but they dont know why and how exactly it is wrong when you ask their opnions on something, i argued, if you dont know why and how it is wrong, how can you 100% sure it is really wrong and need to be abolished. Thinking about the neo-liberilism economic system, it is a no-rules system, the only rules is to break all-rules, so everybody have freedom over on how the way they want to intervent their business to one place, one country, without any certain regulation for any matters. What is economy? What is the different from a capitalist economy, communist economy and socialist economy, participating economy? Can any body give an explaination, and what is the economic system ganna exist and work in anarchism?
Why are we talking about economy, we are anarchist!
Well, knowing people are dying is not enough, you have to know exactly how they are dying, so you can not only stop them from dying at this moment, but to be sure it doesnt happen again.
I was just as surprised when the first time i came here, to realize in the union they dont have the language and discussion about the workers taking over the factories. When I was discussing about my study in Spain with my lefty professors, he laugh and said to me “Em, union is union, what do you expect from an anarcho- syndiciliast union? they are just unions” Well, I understand what a union takes, but i also have expection the way how they think/organize things would be different, more radical, more revolutionary. But in a way, if you want to touch down on the base, you always have to come to the way as what all other union does, but. Let me just have another but.
Shouldn’t we be more radical, okupied the factories, open the doors, the legal process is taking all our engergies and is not giving as anything back as return. we already knew they are ganna side with the bosses, and they do as usual. So what next? And if really, this is what it takes, should we put more study on the legal situation, faciliating our limites to make it reasonable for us to live?
Not likely of course, for example, I had been living in this for squat for almost 2 months, most of the pople dont really have an idea of the legal position we are at as squatters, how is the possibility we can delay, reject the eviction? No body is sure, around 8 tenants participating the housing struggle in our buildings, alone with the squatters, Just to know this building is possibility 2 or 4 gates with each floor 4 houses and possiblly 5 floors in each building, to assume it has roughly 32 houses in this buildings and only 1/3 of the people care about what is going on, and we have totally no idea what other people thinks scares me, confused me. Do we want the revolution how we want, or do we want a revolution that everybody wants? In here, everyday the idea conflicts to each other, majorities and minorities, voting, consesusms? When you can really do it, you are not making it the most as you can….
reality? well, things are different….
Its true, when you have the possiblity to bring a revolution on friday night, you prefer to just hang out with friends in a bar. well, i mean, come on, its friday night.
In anarchism alot people tend to be ‘too serious’ for others, and alot of them tend to be too ‘militant’ for others. there’s a few explination. The people who are too serious are rather they are being too “dogmatic” they can not think any better than the so called anarachist priciples, you ought to do things alot of ways to prevent yourselves to trap yourself again in this fascist curse, but while when you are trying everything hard to prevent it, you are making yourself another centralized orders with rules. Anarchism should be an open idea, not a close one, or we will all end up like another Leninist. We should be serious about what we do, but serious about what we are doing too!
For the too militant people, who always think everything is a battle, to crash down the cars, banks, everything the police do rages them, everything the rich do rages them, the only way to make anarchy is to kill everybody who is not anarchist, and they dont care what it takes, even when sometimes they have to kill other anarchist who have sympathic to human beings, kill kill kill! I saw/met alot of them in black block, sometimes it really annoyed me, when they were drunk while crashing the cars.
so, be serious, be militnat. but not be a dummie……
After all, it still takes everybody to be serious enough about their life, rather is a choice between the friday night bars/revolution, it is everything in what we can do, living in a capitalism world sometimes makes us too comfortable, they forgot why our flag is black and red. And they think if you say “i know” is everything, but ” i know and i act” is the real things.
if you can liberate the human, while you are exploited everything else… I mean, what is this all about? 100 ago some people really believe the black people arent humans like the whites, and even at the time, you think they had no right to exploited them?
March 25, 2009
Categories: Spain Revolution :) . . Author: emblack . Comments: 1 Comment