[Last edited on Saturday, 27 January 2024]
TL;DR (AKA: an abstract)
It is necessary now more than ever before in history to take the means of production and the cultivated lands in the context of an anarcho-communist International, like Pëtr Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Emma Goldman and so many other anarchists advocated and fought to make happen, because today we not only need to finally end it with the domination of exploitation, violence and death that patriarcapitalism is in the whole world, and with any other domination of man on man and of man on the other species, but we also need to save ourselves, our children and the future generations of our species, and so many others, from the decimation or, more probably, the extinction that otherwise would happen in some decades, or even before, by spreading and growing wars and by ecosystemic catastrophes like the escalating reduction of biodiversity, the escalating frequency of pandemics, and global warming driven disasters like the droughts, floods, fires, hurricanes, sea level rise, unlivable temperatures in the summer, and more and more cold winters, which are already happening and causing so much pain and death everywhere, but especially in areas of the planet that have less temperate climate conditions than ours, less financial and material resources to mitigate the effects of these disasters, and, in many cases, even more pollution than our countries.
Moreover: tomorrow it would be much easier than ever before to make a global, federated community of many little communities that would self-manage themselves with open-to-all, consensus driven assemblies (i.e. real, direct democracy, that is a necessary condition for achieving and maintaining good or very good levels of equality and social justice, along with periodic redistribution of wealth accumulation, to be culturally ritualized in the context of festivities), because when the huge advancements in technology that humanity has done since the ancient times when big self-managing communities existed before, particularly those in the many-to-many communications and in the increasingly immersive fiction production and fruition fields, would grant paritary confrontation and creative sublimation and cathartic release of our dark sides (competitiveness, aggressiveness, and so on) to all, when they actually were, hardware and software, in the hands of everybody.
Also: the anarcho-communist 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 directly and greatly alleviate the near-slavery conditions of the populations of 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 governments and masters, who are interested only in securing for themselves the possibility to obtain at very low prices the raw materials to be used in the production of tools which are so often overpowered, or even 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.
Like Pëtr Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Emma Goldman and so many other anarchists said, we have 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 with every other domination and exploitation and violence; and, nowadays, also to save ourselves, our children and the future generations: because in addition to the “usual” exploitation and violence, there’s the immense ecological problem of the average temperature of the world rising, that no one “from above” has even put a curb on (globally, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, instead of decreasing), despite more than two decades of peaceful pressures which we acted in every sauce from below; and there is covid with its variants, this never-ending tragic affair which is predominantly and by far yet another consequence of the material and cultural misery that patriarcapitalism produces, also in its state version (see [1], [2], and [3], or just mind that if it was not because of these miseries, in that Chinese market people would not have sold animals at the risk of causing that virus to jump to humans), and to date has already painfully killed almost 7 million persons worldwide, and would otherwise continue; because yes, the anti-covid vaccines which are currently disposable in the richest countries do work: they are statistically very effective in preserving from getting ill those who accept to get vaccinated, although they provide a rather brief cover; but, despite the fact their development was financed to a great extent by rich states with money from tax payers, these same states buy them at a price per dose that is up to 24 times its cost of production, while the states where the large majority of the people of the world lives can’t afford to buy them and the bosses of pharmaceutical multinationals producing them don’t remise, not even temporarily, to the related patents, and don’t publish the know-how that’s necessary to build the machines to produce them, nor are they disposable to help in building these machines and to train the people who could use them within less rich and poor countries; thus, covid and its variants would otherwise continue spreading, and new viruses would otherwise born and spread – see [1], [2], and [3] again – even in rich countries: viruses, in fact, know no borders, as covid and its variants proved.
These are some of the reasons why we need to take the industrial infrastructures and turn off those that produce the bulk of the global warming that threatens to drive us to extinction, and why we need to take and close the industrial “meat factories”, and why we need to take the cultivated lands, whose cultivation today produces the second most important part of the greenhouse effect, to cultivate them without resorting to fossil fuels burning, which today is mostly used to produce synthetic nitrogen, letting instead work the good old little mushrooms that have taken billions of years to learn how to make nitrogen for good and without polluting, in synergy with the roots of the plants, and thus also letting the lands rest by turning the cultivated plants from year to year, etc., and soon build lots of wind, photovoltaic and photothermal, hydroelectric infrastructures, and produce the necessary batteries without polluting and exploiting people, and start anew everywhere as a world of small federated communities, more or less on the model of Kurdish democratic confederalism, which in the cities could be neighborhoods, and in smaller towns the town itself, where decisions and rules will be defined and refined in assemblies that will be open to all, and which will commercially relate one another by public assemblies as well, through the internet, basing their commercial relations on the answer to the question “which is the closest among other communities that can exchange that resource or that product or that service?”, that will be publicly available information, and socializing through the internet the knowledge they will develop so that, for example, with respect to viral pandemics – that would be then much more seldom anyway –, they would be globally stopped for real and also in a much shorter time; and because we 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 by the way has never been real and produced some of the worst nefariousness in history, that social justice and good levels of social equality require to be backed, along with periodic redistribution of wealth accumulation, that would be culturally ritualized and much more real than today in the context of festivities, by the constant possibility of openly and publicly, verbally confronting in open-to-all assemblies, in every community, about what to do with common goods and common spaces, and about which rules to give ourselves, as this happened already in history, and would happen much better tomorrow due to global free access for all to lay, egalitarian education and knowledge of horrors of the past, that would be widespread everywhere in the world also thanks to the technologies we have developed in the meantime, which should be common heritage of everybody, and due to the abolition of licenses, patents and trade or industrial secrets, and to the possibility that then everyone in the world would have to sublimate their “dark sides” in creativity and lash them out in almost or totally harmless ways, to an extent and with an immersivity that we, as a whole, never had before: the possibility for all to build fictional worlds, with or without fictional stories, using open hardware and software produced by the communities, and to virtually live some time there, and to play and fight and love and build there too, with or without other avatars of others’ selves. This is what arts have always been about, and tomorrow it would be just freely accessible for all, and it would be a great contribution to sublimation and catharsis of our “dark sides”, along with frugal sports and more usual arts and free, respectful love.
And we need to do the anarcho-communist International because it’s our interest not only to save ourselves and the future generations, but also to make the world a much better place for us and our children and everyone else.
There’s no alternative, and time is crucial at this historical stage, and it’s running out not least with respect to the risk of extinction by climate change, that otherwise would happen in this very century, but especially with respect to the increasingly less remote possibility that this umpteenth crisis “of capitalism” will end up again, through the spread of worse and worse nationalisms and wars in which access to those fossil fuels we should have stopped burning yesterday is still one of the main justifications, in an unfolded third world war with a decimation of the global population that would be much heavier than in the previous two (or perhaps, even in this case, with the total extinction of the human species, and so many others): because, in short, this crisis “of capitalism” that we are living today is not only the umpteenth of a series of crises which, on average, have been increasingly damaging, but it’s also totally unprecedented, with its enormous ecological implications which are now, already tragic, with the amount of death and pain they have already caused and are causing now in the world, and which will get much 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, which will certainly worsen and will form a whole that, as if one or a few of its “pieces” wasn’t enough, will be totally fatal for our species and so many others, unless we actually organize and do the anarcho-communist 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, and much more just, and much more happy world for all to live in, and, quite soon, also out of, when anyone who will so desire will have the ability to peacefully live with anyone else, members of terrestrial and non terrestrial species as well, on other planets too, to bring life to those planets were life is not already present and to protect it on those where it is. 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 peacefully live our individual lives in it, we still have to understand that it is the only “god”, and we have so much more to learn from and about it.
The anarcho-communist 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 directly and greatly alleviate the near-slavery conditions of the populations of 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 governments and masters, who are interested only in securing for themselves the possibility to obtain at very low prices the raw materials to be used in the production of tools which are so often overpowered, or even 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.