The Troika, not content simply to oversee or even directly administer
the budgetary functioning of entire States, seeks also to dictate the
very conditions of our lives, reducing the latter to a simple question
of “human resource management”. The impression of being dominated,
overwhelmed, and finally altogether crushed by a self-appointed clique
of “Core European” bureaucrats has become one of the more salient
features of the present.
We are living through the intentional
destruction of the social, a calculated pauperization of our daily
lives, a massive acceleration in the concentration of wealth and power, a
conscious instrumentalization of xenophobic resentments. The German
state, operating as a sort of European metronome for the above
phenomenon, is the right target for all those who find themselves in the
cross-hairs of this attack: refugees risking their lives, all those
whose conditions of existence grow more and more precarious, the
middle-class
deprived of its security along with its last remaining illusions. Who
will join us on our way? It´s time to get our lives back, to reinvent
community, to organize practically.
In the interval, various
forms of “local struggle” have come to the forefront. Some of them have
gone as far as to set the tempo for conflicts spanning an entire
country: Val de Susa in Italy, Notre-Dame-des-Landes in France, Gamonal
in Spain, Chalkidiki in Greece, Lampedusa-Hamburg in Germany. Still,
these struggles, even when they seem to win out, never go beyond a
certain political threshold, thereby allowing the national government in
question to dismiss them as fringe elements and marginal phenomenon.
Remaining
confined within purely self-referential forms of conflict condemns us
to defeat in advance. Calls to align our diverse “local struggles”, to
create a common front, magically united by simple declarations of
solidarity are in no way sufficient to combat the world-wide social
attack underway at present. Just as some of us turned our backs on an
increasingly abstract global struggle ten years ago, it now seems to be
the moment to tear ourselves away, when necessary, from the attraction
of the local.
For us the response to the present situation passes
by the unmediated presence of those who stand up for themselves, those
made superfluous in the Europe of the Troika, those who are not
satisfied with an individual resistance to the reign of unconditional
self-optimization. To combat this concerted and highly organized attack,
we need a new way of imagining how to fight together.
This is why we will go to Frankfurt
As
the restructuration of the European economy takes on the character of
outright plunder, as the violence of disciplinary practices becomes more
and more generalized, the more it becomes necessary to fight back – to
defend our infrastructures and friendships everywhere the present social
attack is being planned, prepared and made to operate on a vast scale.
Therefore we will go to Frankfurt, because our defense requires us to
attack.
It is necessary to transpose our experiences of local
struggle to a higher offensive level, beyond the national frame of
reference inherent to the movement, in order to sandwich the State on
the European level as well. The opening of the new headquarters of the
European Central Bank will be the occasion for us to reconverge, to
unite our forces against a common enemy.
They think they can conduct business as usual without reckoning with us. But the number of those
who’ve
subtracted themselves from the dreadful business of constant
self-assessment grows and grows. There will be a reckoning to made by
all those who’ve suffered through their politics of pauperization and
destruction, a reckoning to be made for all the humiliations endured in
the corridors of the administration, in the rat-race of our daily lives,
for the shame we feel to no longer be young enough, fit enough, or
flexible enough to “compete in the global economy”. And the more that
their world breaks down around them, the more they seek to redouble
their sinister grip on everything that lives.
And to our enemies, who understand no language other than that of calculation – you will pay the bill.
WHAT IS, IS – WHAT IS NOT, IS POSSIBLE
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