File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2003/postanarchism.0306, message 83


Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Juan Pablo <waynepunk-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: a little about argentina


I think that, for many reasons, a lot of activist not
only in argentina but principally in european and
northamerican countries, have deposited too many
"things" in the argentinian case. What "things"? Well,
obviously, the hope for a change that seems to be far
in their countries; the need to revert the post S-11
situation;  the confirmation of many theorems and
axioms (how many "multitudes" we had to hear here!),
etc. Why am i doing this aclaration? Because, i think
that what happened here was in some way, i donīt know
if always exaggerated but surely partially focused.
And now there is a feelling floating of a "freezed
revolt" or something, resulted for the fact that the
"second part", the "next step", is not coming and i
canīt see it coming...
Itīs funny but, as the left wings parties were being
doing from 70 years, new movements falls in the same
mistake trying to see the confirmation of all their
axioms in the first rebellion around the globe. The
left wing parties giving flyers talking about how
lenin saw what is happening now in the 2002 down the
ecuator line in a country called Argentina (aplicable
too, to that ones who give you the Malatesta flyer).
The new left, if exist something like this, showing
videos about multitudes walking togheter, lefting
aside classes differences, creating neighbourhood
assamblies. I donīt know. Itīs better to do a deeper
analysis in this cases, itīs harder too but gives you
a better take of what really happens. It īs true that
people in general rejected political parties but not
as a different take on the nature of power, just
because they see in those parties the represents of a
"corrupted society" or of the "old politics". The
neighbourhood assamblies or councils, the autonomous
unemployed workers or the slogan "QUE SE VAYAN TODOS"
("that eveyones get off"?) is a part of the true, the
one that we want to hear, but i think that the weakest
part.
I donīt know, i want to say many other things about
these, but there is always the problem of the
languaje. May be if some has an specific question i
could answers as i view the facts. But I recommend one
essay, at the time unedited, from Christian Ferrer,
called "Thin cow and Minotaur", where he writes about
the argentinian social imaginary during the last
years, the relationship between this imaginary and
power structures and sustainers. Itīs aviable in
spanish at http://www.nodo50.org/bpji/arch06.htm
saludos.
juan pablo

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