Overthrown, but not conquered, the Commune in our days is born again. It is no longer a dream of the vanquished, caressing in imagination the lovely mirage of hope. No! the ‘commune’ of today is becoming the visible and definite aim of the revolution rumbling beneath our feet.” Kropotkin on the Paris Commune.
Another interesting article by Jerome Roos from Roar Mag. Well worth reading the full article.
What Is the Commune?
----------- Historically speaking, communal ways of organizing social life long
precede the development of the modern state, and humanity on the whole
has spent far more time living communally than it has under capitalism.
To an extent, historical experience therefore lends credence to the
proposition that, in the long run, the commune-form might secure a far
more stable social order than the state-form, whose contradictory unity
with crisis-prone finance capital renders it increasingly vulnerable to
social conflict and systemic chaos, not to mention ecological
catastrophe. On this point, indigenous communities and peasant communes
may hold some important clues for the identification of alternative
developmental pathways—which helps explain why theorists like Marx and
Kropotkin spent many years studying such pre-capitalist societies.
Nevertheless, there are clearly important differences between these
ancient communal forms and the type of revolutionary commune of which we
are speaking here, not least in terms of the latter’s emancipatory,
future-oriented and internationalist horizon. Crucially, the modern
commune fully embraces the expansiveness and universality of the
socialist ideal. To paraphrase Subcomandante Marcos, whose Zapatista
movement has formed its own indigenous communes in southern Mexico, the
revolutionary commune is “not a dream from the past [or] something that
came from our ancestors. It comes to us from the future; it is the next
step that we have to take.”-------
Read the full article HERE:We count on the present generation to bring about the social revolution within the commune, to put an end to the ignoble system of bourgeois exploitation, to rid the people of the tutelage of the state, to inaugurate a new era of liberty, equality, solidarity in the evolution of the human race.”
Visit ann arky's home at www.radicalglasgow.me.uk
No comments:
Post a Comment