[Last edited on Tuesday, 22 August 2025]
Like Pëtr Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Emma Goldman and so many other anarchists, i think we need to take the means of production and the cultivated lands, in order to finally end it with this domination of exploitation, violence and death that patriarcapitalism is, and to save ourselves, our children and the future generations, because in addition to the usual exploitation and violence there’s the huge ecological problem, one of the most problematic elements of which is the average temperature of the world rising, while greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, mainly driven by energy production and consumption for which “renewables” are not a real alternative, despite the many decades of peaceful pressures on governments and companies that we acted in every sauce from below, and climate change is only one of the six of nine planetary boundaries we are far beyond.
A “forced-by-nature-degrowth” would happen when it would be too late for our species and so many others to not extinguish and, at the same time, “degrowth-by-our-will” is impossible as well: it’s impossible that the people in the US, in Europe, in China, in Russia, in all these “developed” countries, and particularly the upper classes, who are by far the greatest GHG emitters, will “degrow” in numbers high enough and in times short enough to get our species out of the very sorrowful extinction by famine, thirst, warfare and pandemics, that we are already living today in many territories. This is why i think there’s no alternative to taking the lands, to cultivate them without polluting, to take and close the industrial “meat factories”, to take the means of production and turn off all the polluting ones.
Agricolture today produces the second most important part of greenhouse gases, but it is possible to cultivate without resorting to fossil fuels burning, that today is mostly used to produce synthetic nitrogen, by practicing agroforestry and permaculture, that are more productive than industrial agricolture and don’t pollute, so it would be possible to start anew everywhere, more or less on the model of Kurdish democratic confederalism, as a world of small communities, that in the cities would be municipalities, and in smaller towns the town itself, where decisions would be taken and current rules would be abrogated or redefined and refined in assemblies that would be open to all, with the municipalities commercially relating one another by public assemblies as well – because it should be clear by now, also due to the historical experiences of “real communisms,” with their marxist nonsense of the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” which produced some of the worst nefariousness in history, that social justice and good levels of social equality require to be backed by the constant possibility of open and public verbal confrontation about what to do with common goods and common spaces, and about which rules to give ourselves.
This kind of social organization has precedents in history, and today it would be easier to achive, with global free access for all to lay, egalitarian education and knowledge of horrors of the past, with the abolition of licenses and patents, and with the possibility for all to sublimate their “dark sides” in creativity and lash them out in harmless ways through arts, frugal sports and free, respectful love.
Yet time is crucial, and it’s running out not least with respect to the risk of extinction by ecological issues (climate change, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification and so on), but especially with respect to the increasing probability that this umpteenth crisis of capitalism will end up again in an unfolded third world war, that would be an acceleration towards the extinction of our species and so many others, through the spread of worse and worse nationalisms and the already ongoing wars, that are still mainly driven by nationalist conflicting wills to hoard raw materials that we should have stopped using yesterday, such as fossil fuels and so many others.
This crisis of capitalism that we are living today is not only the umpteenth of a series of crises that have been increasingly damaging, but it’s also unprecedented, with its enormous ecological implications that are now, already tragic, with the amount of death and pain they have already caused and are causing now in the world, that would just get more and more tragic with the worsening of the already and since long ongoing crisis in the ability of the living to reproduce even in order to feed us, and with the worsening of water scarcity and drought that is already ongoing, and with so many other problems that patriarcapitalism has caused and is causing and that would certainly form a whole which, as if one or a few of its parts wasn’t enough, would be fatal for our species and so many others – unless we actually organize and do the socialist International we need to do, quickly, to transform what otherwise would certainly be a bitter and very painful end for most or all of us into the foundation and the beginning of a new and much more peaceful, just and happy world for all to live in. Because that which is holy and sacred is not much our individual lives, but life itself, that just can’t be stopped, and in order to be a living and healthy part of it, and to most peacefully live our individual lives in it, the upper classes, the higher they are, still have to understand that it is the only “god”, and that they are those who have the most to learn from it.
The socialist International could and would much better start from rich countries, where conscience of the huge inequalities of patriarcapitalism is more widespread and material and cultural conditions are still better than in those many countries where the vast majority of the people of the world lives. By putting an end to the domination of the masters and rulers in our countries we would not only save and free ourselves and our people, but also directly and greatly alleviate the semi-slavery conditions, that in many cases are materially worse than those of actual slavery, of people in the poorest countries, where the local rulers and masters would then no longer receive the more or less overt or covert support and the weapons they receive today from our rulers and masters, who are only interested in consolidating and extending their profits and power by obtaining at lower prices the raw materials to be used in the ecologically devastating production of tools that are so often overpowered, useless or damaging, and also designed, with planned obsolescence, to last much shorter than they could.
Finally: although it would still require being armed, if we managed to be many enough to take the means of production and the cultivated lands in our rich countries, maybe not even a single drop of blood, neither ours nor of our adversaries, would be shed. But time is running fast, and it’s very improbable that we will be that many soon enough. So, and in any case, we’d better start or continue with more conviction to organize ourselves secretly, in groups, on an operational level, while continuing to spread our knowledge and ideas publicly.
