Umthombo: I-Counterpunch
Ngo-2006, ndaya kuqhanqalazo olukhulu lokulwa imfazwe eWashington D.C. Amashumi amawaka amatsha ntliziyo azalise izitrato ukuya kuthi ga apho abona khona. Izakhiwo zeeofisi kunye nezikhumbuzo ziye zaba lulungelelwaniso lwethu oluthembekileyo lwejografi. Ngelo xesha, uqhanqalazo olukhulu lwaluyinto eqhelekileyo: izigidi zabantu baseMelika zazisezitratweni ezichasa imfazwe engekho mthethweni kunye nokuziphatha okubi kukaBush e-Iraq (kodwa asikwazanga ukufumana abantu abaninzi ukuba bathethe nge-Afghanistan).
Kwiminyaka embalwa kamva, ndangqina kwiNgqungquthela yaseBusika yeJoni eSilver Springs, eMaryland, apho uninzi lwamagqala abelana ngamabali malunga nolwaphulo-mthetho lwemfazwe olwenziwe e-Iraq nase-Afghanistan. Ukufika kwam kuloo ndawo, elinye igqala laseVietnam leza kum laza lathi, “Vinny! Siza kuyiphelisa le mfazwe! Abo bagebengayo kwi-White House kuya kufuneka baphendule kuthi ngoku. Ayinakwenzeka ukuba [amajelo eendaba nabezobupolitika] bangabahoyi oogqirha bezilwanyana!” Wayekholelwa kumandla okubalisa kunye noqhanqalazo olungokomfuziselo, ixhoba le-post-1968 lashiya inkcubeko yezopolitiko.
Ngelishwa kodwa ngokuqikelelwa kwangaphambili, ngokujonga ngasemva, amandla anokubakho awayihoyi iNgqungquthela yeJoni laseBusika - njengoko kwenza i-99% yabantu baseMelika abangazange bazi nokuba umsitho wenzekile. Kuchithwe amashumi amawaka eedola (mhlawumbi amakhulu amawaka). Amajelo eendaba ekhohlo maninzi. Iziphumo? Abanye abaxhasi abatsha kunye namalungu. Iqhinga? Kwakungekho nanye. Umsitho wonke wawungumboniso obonisayo kunye nomfuziselo owawufuna “ukutshintsha ibali” — i-bubble ye-NGO.
Kwiminyaka kamva, i-Occupy yaqalisa, kwaye kwadlala amandla afanayo. Amashumi amawaka abantu baseMelika bathatha izitrato kwaye bazibandakanya ipolitiki yokomfuziselo. Ngaloo mihla, ukwenza izigqibo ngokuvumelana kunye nokuthatha inxaxheba yonke into yayilugcwabevu. Ewe, siphumeze okuncinci kakhulu ngexesha lokuvuka kuka-Occupy. Sahlala sibambekile kwiMobilising Mode, sithetha kuphela nabantu abanengqondo efanayo abasele bezichongile njengabanenkqubela kunye neeradicals. Asizange sandise isiseko sethu. Ewe, ibali litshintshile ukusuka ubungqongqo ukuba ukungalingani, kodwa igunya lokwenene lezobupolitika (ilizwe, ikomkhulu, iinkundla) lafudukela ekunene.
I-Tea Party yathatha indlu ngo-2010. Iirhuluneli zeRiphabhlikhi kulo lonke elase-US zadlula umthetho ochasene nomanyano 'weLungelo lokuSebenza' kwaye zahlutha imibutho yoluntu amandla abo okuthengisa ngokudibeneyo. INkundla ePhakamileyo yalawulwa ngabagcini bephiko lasekunene. Okufanayo kwiinkundla ezisezantsi nakwizindlu zowiso-mthetho zikarhulumente. Amalungelo abavoti ajikwa, amakhulu amawaka abavoti abamnyama abahluthwanga. Iimpempe zahlaselwa zaza zavalelwa entolongweni. Iinkqubo zokucupha ze-NSA zandisiwe. I-ICE yaba namandla ngakumbi, njenge-CIA. Inkqubo yedrone yanda, njengoko zenza iimfazwe ezingapheliyo. Ukuqhekeka, ukugrumba ngaphandle konxweme, nesanti yetela yaba yinto eqhelekileyo. Abantu baseRiphabhlikhi babuyisela iSenethi yase-US ngo-2014, kwaye uDonald Trump wonyulwa e-POTUS ngo-2016 - kancinci ixesha elilungileyo lekhohlo, nangona abanye abasekhohlo bengavumelani.
Ewe, abanye babahlobo bam baphikisa ukuba ixesha le-9/11 libone ukuphinda kushiyeke. Ukuya kuthi ga kwinqanaba elithile, yinyani: imibutho emininzi, iintshukumo, kunye namaphulo onyulo ashiyekileyo akhona namhlanje kunokuba ayenjalo ngeminyaka yoo-1980 okanye yoo-1990, kwaye iQela leDemokhrasi ngokuqinisekileyo alikho neoliberal kunokuba lalinjalo kwiminyaka elishumi eyadlulayo, kodwa yibhari ephantsi kakhulu leyo. Uninzi lwezi nzame azikho nto (ziswele abantu abaninzi abaqhelekileyo) kwaye azikwazi ukusebenzisa amandla amakhulu. Iimanyano zisezintanjeni. Ubomi obuMnyama Matter (BLM) ihlala i-amorphous, eyona nto ingcono. Kwaye amaqela afana ne-DSA, i-OurRevolution, iGreens, i-People's Party, kunye nezinye ii-NGOs ezinenkqubela phambili ezisekhohlo zijongene nengxaki lonke iqela lezopolitiko elizikhethele ngokwalo, elincinane okanye elikhulu, elijongene nazo: oko kukuthi, umbuzo wendlela yokwakha nokusebenzisa amandla non-sakhiwo.
Kwesi sithuba sicwangcisiweyo nesicwangcisiweyo, abaninzi abasekhohlo bakhetha indlela eyintsomi kwezopolitiko. Apha, ndicinga ngama-anarcho-syndicalists, amatsha-ntliziyo achasene nempucuko, abasekhohlo be-intanethi, kunye nabanye abohlukeneyo ezopolitiko zabo azifani tu nokwakheka kwethu kwezopolitiko nezentlalo kunye neemeko zempahla. Kufana nokuba abantu bachithe ixesha elininzi behlukanisiwe ngokwentlalo kangangokuba baye balibala ukuba siphila, enyanisweni, sihlala kuluntu (ngokuchaseneyo neemvakalelo ezingenangqondo zikaMargaret Thatcher), ezibunjwa ziinkqubo ezikhoyo kunye namaziko, uthungelwano, kunye nobudlelwane.
Abaninzi abashiyekileyo baphatha ezopolitiko akukho nto yahlukileyo kunomdlalo wokudlala indima (RPG). Kwi-RPGs, abadlali balawula umlinganiswa oyintsomi ojikeleza kwihlabathi lentelekelelo echazwa yimithetho ethile, useto, izithethe kunye nemithetho. Njengoko u-Andrew Rollings no-Ernest Adams bebhala kwincwadi yabo, Kuyilo loMdlalo, “Umdlalo [weRPG] udla ngokuba yintsomi eqikelelwayo (oko kukuthi, intsomi okanye intsomi yenzululwazi), evumela abadlali ukuba benze izinto abangenako ukuzenza ebomini.”
Abantu abasekhohlo abaxhasa uvukelo-mbuso, uvukelo-mbuso, okanye uvukelo olukhulu (zonke iziphakamiso eziqhelekileyo zabagqabaza abasekhohlo abanamava okuququzelela abantu bokwenyani abasebenzi) abapheleli nje ekuthatheni xanduva kwaye abakhathali, babandakanyeka kuhlobo lwezopolitiko lweRPG- bayingozi kwaye counter-imveliso.
Embindini wayo, ipolitiki imalunga namandla. Yaye igunya lisetyenziswa ngokunyanzelwa, ngokunyanzelwa, okanye ngokulawulwa kwezentlalo. Kuba ekhohlo elikhoyo lingakwazi ukuphumeza naziphi na ezo ndlela, akukho ngqiqweni ukucebisa ukuba abantu baseMelika basebenza "bahambe ezitalatweni." Kwakhona, iminxeba yokuba abantu babandakanyeke “kuchaso oluninzi” idla ngokuphuma kubagqabaza abanonxibelelwano oluncinci nemibutho yezopolitiko ekumgangatho wabasebenzi. Umzekelo, kwi-a nqaku yakutshanje, uChris Hedges ubhala athi:
Ukanti, ukusilela ukwenza okuthile, kwaye oku kuthetha ukwenza inkitha, izenzo ezizinzileyo zokungathobeli ngokungenabundlobongela ngelinge lokuqhekeza i-megamachine, kukufa ngokomoya. . . Amandla okusebenzisa ukuzimela ngokuziphatha, ukwala ukusebenzisana, ukophula i-megamachine, kusinika ekuphela kwendlela eshiyekileyo kwinkululeko yomntu kunye nobomi obunenjongo. Imvukelo kukuzithethelela. Itshabalalisa, nangona ingabonakali, izakhiwo zengcinezelo. Igcina amalahle ovelwano nemfesane, kunye nobulungisa. La malahle akabalulekanga. Bagcina bephila amandla okuba ngumntu. Bahlala bephila ukuba kunokwenzeka, nangona kunjalo, ukuba imikhosi eququzelela ukubulala kwethu ekuhlaleni inokuyekwa. Imvukelo kufuneka yamkelwe, ekugqibeleni, kungekuphela nje oko iza kuyifeza, kodwa noko iya kusivumela ukuba sibe yiyo. Kweso sidima sifumana ithemba.
Ukubandakanyeka "kwizenzo ezininzi zokungathobeli ngokungenabundlobongela" liqhinga, kungekhona iqhinga. Kwaye "ukubetha i-megamachine" ayingombono. Izibheno ezinjalo zinokubiza umoya wokuchasa kwaye zivakale kamnandi ephepheni, kodwa zithetha kancinci kakhulu ngaphandle kombono ocacileyo woluntu esinethemba lokulwakha, isicwangciso esifunekayo ukufezekisa ngempumelelo umbono wethu, okanye imibutho kunye nemibutho efunekayo ukwenza oko. iqhinga. Le, kwakhona, yingxaki yokuba abahlomli benza iingcebiso malunga nokuba abantu mabaphendule njani na kwiingxaki zethu ezikhulayo kunye nezinemigangatho emininzi. I-Punditry ayifani nokuququzelela. Ukugqabaza akufani nokwenza amaqhinga.
Ngokufanayo, ukuziphatha kakubi kwenkolo akunikezeli indlela eya phambili. Kuthetha ukuthini, kanye, ukuba “namandla okusebenzisa ukuzimela geqe kokuziphatha?” Ewe, kufuneka sikhuthaze ugwayimbo, okanye oko uHedges akubiza ngokuba “ngokwala intsebenziswano,” kodwa ezo zenzo zifuna iziseko eziqeqeshekileyo nezilungelelanisiweyo zabaxhasi (buza i-CTU), abantu abaqhelekileyo, ababandakanyekayo, abaxhotyisiweyo, nabaphucukileyo ngokwaneleyo ukuphuhlisa isazisi esihlangeneyo. . Oku akwenzeki nje ngokuba abantu “baye ezitalatweni.” Izigidi zabantu baseMelika baye ezitratweni ngo-2020. Iziphumo? UJoe Biden akazange aphumelele kwiNdlu eNgcaciso yoMhlophe; Iidemokhrasi ziye zabetha kwimidyarho yokuvota ezantsi; abaqhankqalazi basekunene bazama ukubhukuqa; kwaye akukho bungqina bubonisa ukuba imibutho yezopolitiko ehlala ixesha elide enombono ocacileyo, onzulu, kunye nobuqili baye baphuhliswa ngenxa yemvukelo yaseGeorge Floyd.
Abantu baseMelika kudala bexakeke ziingcamango "zenkululeko yomntu" kunye "nentsingiselo." Sifuna ingxoxo enzulu malunga nokuba injani “inkululeko yobuqu” kwinkulungwane yama-21. Kumxholo wokukhula ngokukhawuleza kwabemi behlabathi kunye nokutshintsha kwemozulu ebalekayo kunye nokutshatyalaliswa kwendalo, akucaci ngokupheleleyo. Ukongeza, ndiyathandabuza nakuphi na ukufuna "intsingiselo" kwaye ndiyavumelana noAvital Ronnel: ukusukela. meaning ineezandi ezininzi zobuFascist. Apha, inkolo yasekhohlo kunye ne-fascist yasekunene yabelana ngembono efanayo - ngelixa abanye bethu banokusebenza ngokugqibeleleyo besebenza phantsi kwengcinga yokuba ubukho bethu, ubomi bethu, ubuntu bethu, abunanto yakudala. meaning, abanye baqhubeka bephila ubomi obutofotofo meaning, ngokufuthi ephelekwa yingcamango engqongqo yobulungisa bokuziphatha. "Ngumsebenzi wethu ukwenza into elungileyo!" Hayi ayinguwe. Abantu abanalo “umsebenzi wokuziphatha” wendalo, kwaye ngokuqinisekileyo akukho sigqibo sihlangeneyo “ngomsebenzi wokuziphatha” (ngaphandle kokuba ndiphoswe yintlanganiso).
Ukuba bonke abakhohlo banokunika abantu abakumgangatho wabasebenzi abaqhelekileyo iseti yeemvakalelo eziphakamileyo zokuziphatha, iifowuni ezingacacanga nezingezobuchule mvukelo, kwaye isiyatha siyabiza ithemba, yenza ingqiqo ngakumbi ukuba abantu abaqhelekileyo bahlale besecaleni kwaye bazonwabele de yonke inkqubo ye-damn iwa. Ngaphandle kwesicwangciso esinzulu, yiyo kuphela impendulo enengqiqo kwinkqubo esiyinyamezelayo kunye nomxholo esiphila kuwo. Imvukelo asikokuzithethelela, ngaphandle kokuba, kakade, umntu ukholelwa ukuba abantu bane Injongo kule planethi. Andi. Imvukelo ngaphandle kwesicwangciso esinzulu, esisebenzayo, kunye nesicwangciso sobuchule sisenzo sokuzibulala kwezopolitiko okanye ukudlala indima emnandi. I-Extinction Rebellion ngumzekelo ogqibeleleyo wolu hlobo lwendlela yobuntwana kunye neyokungenabuchule kwintshukumo yezopolitiko/yokuhlanganisa.
Ukungakwazi ukuchaza umbono ononxibelelwano olunzulu kwizinto eziphathekayo okanye imikhosi elawulayo ngoku kwaye iquka amaziko ethu ezopolitiko, ezoqoqosho, ezenkcubeko, kunye nezentlalo yingxaki i-anarcho kunye nenkolo ekhohlo ijongene nayo ubuncinane ixesha elide. Ndikhe ndabandakanyeka kubutshantliziyo bezopolitiko kunye nolungiselelo (iminyaka elishumi elinesihlanu), ukuba akunjalo amashumi eminyaka. Izibheno "zokudiliza izakhiwo zengcinezelo," ezivakala zintle ephepheni, azithethi nto kwaphela kubaququzeleli kunye nabantu abasebenzayo abacwangcisa amaqhinga emhlabeni. Ngaphaya koko, iminxeba "yokudiliza izakhiwo zamandla" iwela kudidi olufanayo lokusilela "lokuchasana nezopolitiko" oluthe i-anarcho-left lirhweba iminyaka: ihlala ibiza "ukudilizwa" oku, okanye "ukuphelisa" oko, okanye "ukuchasa, ” kodwa ungaze uveze umbono obonakalayo wabantu abazibhiliyoni ezisisi-7.8 abahlala kwesi sijikelezi-langa, abangakhe bakhe, abangaze baphumelele— basoloko bezikhusela; ngenxa yoko, isoloko igxile kwintshabalalo.
Ekuphela kwendlela “yokugcina ithuba elinokwenzeka” lokuba oongxowankulu/abaphathi kunye nabalandeli bephiko lasekunene/abanobufasi (kufuneka sibize iintshaba zethu kunye nezinto esijolise kuzo) banokunqandwa kukubanqanda. Kwaye ekuphela kwendlela yokubanqanda kukwenza uhlengahlengiso olunzulu. Indlela yangoku yasekhohlo kwezopolitiko ayisebenzi. Ukuphindaphinda nje lo mjikelo kuya kubangela ukungakhathali nokuthandabuza. Ukuziphatha kakuhle akuyi kunqumla. Kwaye iphiko lasekhohlo le-virtue-signaling lihlazo. Abasekhohlo abaneqonga banoxanduva lokutshintsha indlela.
IiHedges kufuneka zazi ngcono. Ayonqeni ngokwasengqondweni. Ngaba akathethi nabaququzeleli? Ngaba akawuqondi umahluko phakathi kokuHlanganisa nokuQuquzelela? Ngaba akakholelwa ukuba umbono kunye neqhinga zizinto ezibalulekileyo zoloyiso? Ngaba akacingi ngendlela oluya kubonakala ngayo uloyiso? Ngaba uyakonwabela ukubhala isincoko esinye ngokuphindaphindiweyo? Wolin. Camus. Conrad. Freud. Arendt. Amasikizi eluntwini; Isalathiso samaNazi, silandelwa ngamalanga amancinane ethemba kunye neminxeba engacacanga yokuxhathisa. Pula. Phinda.
Kuvakala ngathi kudala ndifunda isincoko sikaChris Hedges iminyaka elishumi. Xa ndandineminyaka engama-25 ubudala, ukufunda iHedges kwakuvusa inkanuko, kuwucelomngeni kwaye kubangel’ umdla. Namhlanje, iyadika, iyaqikelelwa kwaye ayinamveliso.
Ndikwafumanisa ukuba inika umdla into yokuba umfana ocekeceke ezopolitiko zonyulo wagqiba ekubeni alwele i-US Congress njengelungu leGreen Party. Kutheni ungancedi ukuphuhlisa iqumrhu leendaba elizimeleyo elisekhohlo? Uyazi, endaweni yeqela lee-assholes kuYouTube ezisebenza njengabantu ngabanye, betyhala iibrendi zabo. Kutheni ungaququzeleli nabantu abasebenzayo ngenjongo yokwenza “izenzo ezinkulu zokungathobeli uluntu? Kuyavela, ukuba umsebenzi unzima. Kuyavela ukuba, imbono kaHedges kunye neengcinga malunga nodidi lwabasebenzi ziya kunyuka ngokukhawuleza ukuba kufuneka azivavanye.
Ukuthetha ngezopolitiko kulula. Ngokwenene ukwenza ipolitiki kunzima. Endaweni yokuthatha inxaxheba kwinxalenye enzima, uHedges uphinda abuyele kwimigca yeshumi leminyaka ubudala malunga nokuchasa kwaye uphose umnqwazi wakhe kwindandatho yeofisi enyuliweyo, ukanti unobuganga bokuthetha i-shit ngamaqela (i-DSA) kunye nabezopolitiko (uSanders) abaphumelele uhlaziyo kweli lizwe. ihlabathi lokwenyani. Loo nkunkuma inokumkholisa umntu ohleli ekhaya, kodwa ayibachukumisi abo bethu balungiselelayo.
Ekugqibeleni, andikholelwa kwithemba okanye umsebenzi wokuziphatha. Kwaye ndiyathandabuza kakhulu ingcamango yobulungisa, endicinga ukuba iboleka kuhlobo lwezopolitiko ezohlwaya, zihlala zijolise kubantu abangalunganga. Ndiyakholelwa kumandla abantu abaqhelekileyo kunye nokukwazi kwabo ukuwasebenzisa kwiindawo zabo zokusebenza, kwiindawo zabo, kunye norhulumente. Ndiyakholelwa ekusebenziseni amandla karhulumente. Ndiyakholelwa kwiziphumo eziphathekayo kwihlabathi lezinto ezibonakalayo. Andikhathali ngokomoya. Ndiyakholelwa kwizicwangciso, kukuziphatha, kunye nokuziphendulela komntu ngamnye kunye neqela. Ndiyakholelwa ekuphumeleleni. Ndiyakholelwa ekuphileni.
Yonke enye into, kum, ishiya iPokémon kwaye andinaxesha layo, kwaye akukho namnye wabaququzeleli endibaziyo abachitha iintsuku zabo nobusuku becwangcisa ngokuchaseneyo nokuziphatha kunye nokuziphatha. Sikwidabi lobomi okanye lokufa kwaye sifuna zonke izandla kumgangatho. Oko kuthetha ukuba bambalwa abazoba iimephu ze-apocalypse kunye neengcali zobuchule bohlaziyo.
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