AUT: COMMUNISM #13

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Hi fellows, here's the last issue of our central
review in English COMMUNISM #13 that is available on
our web site... there're good pieces about the
dictatorship of the economy and against the work:

Notes against the dictatorship of the economy
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Over a century has passed since the critique of the
economy put forward that the dictatorship of value
valorising itself is the essence of capitalist society
and that the usefulness of the objects produced is
merely a means serving this omnipresent dictatorship.
Use value merely supports exchange value, value in
process. All misery, all dictatorships, all wars, all
human exploitation and oppression are the expression
of this infernal tyranny of value that has become the
true subject, the God of the whole society. The world
is not ruled by ideas, politics or laws but by the
economy, thirst for profit and money; ideas, politics,
rights and state terrorism only serve to maintain and
consolidate the expanded reproduction of this tyranny.
In other words, the state, democracy,... ie. the
structuring of Capital as a force of domination (in
whatever form it organises itself), only prolong of
the profound dictatorship of value over human life.
Terrorism, be it overt or covert, parliamentarist or
bonapartist, fascist or antifascist, is no more than
the expression of the merciless reality of a world
submitted to the law of value.
http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_dictatorship_economy.htm

The Economy is in crisis... May it die!
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Written by Akefalos in Spain, this text talks about
the dictatorship of economy, the real domination of
monetary abstraction and, while formulating a classist
criticism of capital and state, it describes with
precision and richness the present forms of
domination, separation of human beings, imposition of
dominant ideology, of citizenship, of generalised
imbecilisation.
http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_akefalos.htm

"Death to recovery"
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Written on a relatively concrete and illustrative
level this text shows, on the basis of official
figures and quotations, that even given the best
possible scenario, the situation of the proletariat is
getting worse and worse.
http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_recovery.htm

Written at different periods, in different countries
and in different circumstances, both texts denounce
essentially the same thing. They both express the
struggle against the current, criticise the official
discourse of all bourgeois fractions and oppose
capital and the state with the direct action of the
proletariat.

An invariant position of the communists: DOWN WITH
LABOUR!
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http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_downwithlabour.htm

On the praise of work
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The more society falls apart the more it praises work
through its media. It is, in fact, not at all rare to
see heads of state, trade-unionists,... devoting a lot
of their hot air to the subject of work. They explain
to us that "work is necessary", that "we must build a
hardworking nation", that "we cannot live without
work", that "there needs to be an increase in
productivity", "to rebuild the country (or to make it
more competitive...)", etc. Moreover, in general, it
is usually those who do not work who make these kind
of speeches. First of all because, in principle,
social rules forbid singing one?s own praises.
Secondly, if such speeches were to be made by a worker
it would be the equivalent of him wanting to create
and perfect the instrument of torture (work is
torture!) that his own torturer imposes on him.
Finally, this kind of speech corresponds to capital?s
need to maintain proletarians as mere workers,
subsisting to work, sweating out surplus value and
devoting the rest of their "lives" to reconstituting
their labour force... in order to keep on working. Far
beyond the individual speaker, the discourse around
"long live work" is maintained by capital, this social
monster, the single true subject of this society.
Indeed, capital is not only value valorising itself, a
social relationship of the exploitation of wage
labour: as value in process it has subsumed man and
has turned him into the executor of its own interests.
In this way, capital transforms itself into the
supreme subject of society, simultaneously
transforming its executors into mere puppets.
http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_praise_work.htm

Slogans foreign to the proletariat, Alienated workers?
consciousness
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Concerning slogans such as: "Protect work", "Protect
the workplace", "Protect the company", "Protect the
national economy"...

In periods like the ones we?re going through factory,
mine, or farm closures or "restructuring" based on
massive unemployment are common currency. In the face
of this bourgeois attack which condemns it to
unemployment and thus to ever increasing misery, the
proletariat can only respond by struggle, by direct
action. On very many occasions this struggle for
proletarian interests takes up slogans like the ones
above as its banners. However, contrary to what the
protagonists believe, they do not reflect the
interests of the proletariat in any way, but on the
contrary those of its enemies: the bourgeois. The
interest of the proletarian is to satisfy his human
needs, to appropriate a less miserable share of the
social product, to be less dispossessed of the product
of his labour (the interest of the proletariat, as a
class, is clearly to appropriate the whole of the
social product - both past and present - to abolish
exploitation, the state, and to suppress itself as a
class by abolishing all social classes). When the
bourgeoisie gives him the sack, the proletarian is
fully conscious that this separates him even more from
the means of life and that, from then on, he will be
even more deprived of what he needs than in the past.
Revolutionary militants will always find difficulties
in being able to express the interests of the class
they belong to in clear, incisive, agitating slogans.
This difficulty is relatively simplified when things
are demanded directly, for example "bread" in
revolutionary Russia, "housing" in the Chile of
Allende and again in Naples more than ten years ago.
In this case the interest of the proletariat expresses
itself directly for what it is, always with the same
outcome, a direct attack on private property, since
for proletarians the cause of all deprivation is
indeed the fact that they are deprived of the means of
life and of their production.
http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_slogans.htm

Leaflets:
"Burning and looting all illusions tonight"
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http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/c13_precarinati.htm

"Antiterrorism = development of terror against our
struggles"
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http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/leaflets/antiterrorism_uk.htm

Have a good reading, fellows.
Communist greetings.

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