1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What institutions do you want that you think will be better than what we have, for the economy, polity, gender, race, ecology, or whatever you think is central to have vision for?”
The Great Recession, just like the Great Depression three generations ago, is a major demand crisis leading to mass unemployment and underemployment. It won’t be solved until the collective fruits of social productivity finally accrue to the employed and unemployed instead of managers and financiers. This requires massive fiscal redistribution from the tiny élites to the precarious multitudes. Free public health and education, basic income and leisure expansion, green jobs and new labor and property laws are the first-aid tools to address the crisis and ferry us toward a postcapitalist society, where corporations and investment banks are dismantled, credit is socialized, copyright is abolished, culture and knowledge are freely shared, the global economy is regionalized, food distribution networks are localized, energy production is decentralized, and political power is federalized, in regional and transnational federations of autonomous cities and liberated lands.
2. Tada kažkas tame pačiame renginyje klausia: "Kodėl tu darai tai, ką darai? Tai yra, tu kalbi su mumis ir aš žinau, kad rašai, o gal ir organizuojate, bet kodėl tai darai? Ką tu darai ar manote, kad tai pasieks? Koks jūsų tikslas ateinančiais ar dešimt metų?
Because I believe in real freedom, social equality, climate justice, and in activism, organizing, direct action to achieve these ends within the next decade.
3. Jūs esate namuose ir gaunate el. laišką, kuriame rašoma, kad tarptautiniu mastu bandoma steigti naują organizaciją, jungiančią nacionalinius skyrius ir pan. Jame prašoma prisijungti prie pastangų. Ar galite įsivaizduoti tinkamas sąlygas, kuriomis galėtumėte pasakyti: „Taip, aš skirsiu savo jėgas, kad tai įvyktų kartu su kitais, kurie jau dalyvauja? Jei taip, kokios tos sąlygos? Arba – ar manote, kad nepaisant darbotvarkės turinio ir dalyvių sudėties, idėja negali būti verta dabar, o gal kada nors. Jei taip, kodėl?
Yes, I would join a revolutionary organization of some kind if: it were pink, black, green, i.e. postcommunist; it spoke to and organized the precarious, women, poor, immigrants at the european/ continental level; if its theory and practice were rooted in a radical vision of what the informational economy can be and immaterial labor can do to transform society and defend the biosphere; if its final aim wouldn’t be the emancipation of the industrial proletariat, but global climate justice for the reconstruction of urban and rural society meeting social needs and thermodynamic constraints. Redistribution of wealth and power toward the precarious, growth of immaterial knowledge, cultural enrichment of society and massive expansion of leisure are fundamental social preconditions for the horizontal eco-social design of a resilient postcapitalist society, freeing the time to pursue ecohacktive and permacultural activities, giving the time and money back to precarized people to work for environmental remediation and think collectively about their own future, cutting the need for quick consumption and instant satisfaction.
4. Kaip manote, ar pastangos organizuoti judėjimus, projektus ir mūsų pačių organizacijas turėtų įkūnyti ateities sėklas dabartyje? Jei ne, kodėl? Jei taip, ar galite apytiksliai pasakyti, kokias pasekmes, jūsų nuomone, turėtų organizacija, kuriai pritartumėte?
Since I joined the antiglobalization movement a decade ago, and then with other fellow european radicals started the euromayday network, I have always looked at the t+1, which means seizing emerging social trends in the labor market and the economy, in order to plan and enact innovative forms of media activism and direct action syndicalism. Most of all, it means rejecting the ideological conservatism that has too often been the default response to neoliberalism of existing radical traditions. Since ideological differences dividing reds (a diehard breed in europe, but blossoming in South America) from greens (a rising force in Europe and North America, altho too often co-opted by dawning green capitalism), and – to a lesser degree – autonomists (those with the best new theory, but often too leninist for their own good) from anarchists (more in tune with the cyberlibertarian zeitgeit, but hobbled by their desire of unattainable political purity) are still too great to create a new radical political ideology that supersedes both socialism and anarchism, I think a revolutionary biosyndicalism based on natural and digital commons, that organizes people in communities, cities, workplaces, environments, probably stands a greater chance to see the day, altho it probably takes a longer time to structure itself than a new political movement (unions move at a slower speed than parties). We need something like the 21st equivalent of the IWW in early 1900s or the CIO in the 1930s to fight for global redistribution during the Great Recession. Existing unions are not gonna do it on their own, since they are too moderate, and mostly tied to the industrial fordism of yore; they have yet to come to terms with pink collars, knowledge workers, and indeed the whole precariat, which they treat either with paternalism or suspicion.
5. Kodėl atsakėte į šį interviu? Kaip manai, kodėl kiti neatsakė?
Because it’s the 3rd reminder;)
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