When do the people of the world wake to the fact that reform is impotent
against capitalism. We have had a couple of centuries of reformists,
and we have reformed ourselves into austerity, increasing poverty and
deprivation. Reformists failed to stop brutal wars, where the
ordinary people paid the full price in millions of unnecessary deaths. Reformists
have lead us to this present state, where corporate capitalism, hand
in hand with the financial Mafia, control the world. Our history has
writ large in letters of struggle and misery, capitalism, like a
viral epidemic, can't be reformed, it has to be destroyed. Social
democracy, representative democracy, born in the womb of capitalism
is a still born child. A prisoner in a cell, who is allowed to discuss some improvements to his cell, is still a prisoner in a cell.
We have to stop assessing our every situation in the language
of economics, stop measuring our future by means of growth. We have
to see the profit motive as one symptom of the viral epidemic of
capitalism. All of these, are the tools of the exploiter, to use them is to tie your own hands in the face of your enemy. A new world
requires a new language, the language of needs, of mutual aid,
co-operation and sustainability. None of these can survive in the belly
of capitalism, no amount of reform will make them grow and flourish
in a system based on personal greed and exploitation.
This from Autistici:
Read the full article HERE:So what’s going on in Greece is just the antepenultimate episode of the always sad and lamentable story of the historical Social Democracy, that is to say the bourgeois party for workers and proletarians, this social force in charge of emptying our movements of struggle from their subversive substance, of diverting their perspectives of radical transformation of the world onto a simple reform, and finally of making us falling back into ranks of social peace. The camp of Social Democracy materializes at two levels: by setting up a militant structure external to our class, a structure directly stemming from leftist and progressive factions of the bourgeois class on the one hand, and by development of a reformist ideological corpus generated within our class and based on the weaknesses, limitations and illusions of the struggle on the other hand, all that in a dialectical back-and-forth movement between both.
So what’s going on in Greece is nothing very different from what the very “radical” Workers Party of Brazil (led by the reformist Lula da Silva and the former “guerrilla” Dilma Roussef) achieved in recent years in terms of attacks on proletarians’ living conditions; what by the way provoked the June 2013 revolt against austerity and misery.
