Any
protest within the capitalist system should not be about asking for a
little more, or a slight improvement in our conditions. We produce
and distribute everything, it is ours by right, we should be aiming
to take control of all we produce and distribute. Our struggle must
be to change the entire structure of the system we live under, and to
shape society so that it sees to the needs of all our people.
Capitalism is no more than a man made economic system and from our
personal experiences we are fully aware that it doesn't work in the
interests of the ordinary people. It is a system that enslaves the
individual in the service of a small cabal of parasites. Why ask for
cheaper bread when you make the bread?
The
following is from disaccords.
Manado,
Indonesia: translation of anti-authoritarian flyer from fuel price
demonstrations
Anti-Authoritarian Flyer
For us, protesting the increase in fuel prices is merely one partial action that is not essential. For us, being trapped in the logic of the economy and political issues is a shallow analysis of the commodification of life under capitalism and the State. Whether the price of fuel rises or not, it won’t change the fact that each of us remain consumers whose only role is to buy. Each of us remain low-cost workers whose role is to produce the commodities that we will buy. Each of us remain zombies who don’t have anything other than the obligation to continue being ruled, oppressed, tortured, consumed and to accumulate all the things we don’t need.
The deprivation of lives, their dreams and loves, is too simple if merely contained in economic issues such as rising fuel prices. We are too angry to understand that it is far more important for us to define and reclaim our lives, than simply following the glamour party of false opposition: to protest or support raising the price of fuel.
Demand more! This is an attempt for the possible to break out of impossibility, and the hypocrisy and shallowness of life at present.
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