Re-reading Kopotkin

international | anarchist movement | other libertarian press Friday December 25, 2009 17:39 by José Luis Carretero

Says Peter Kropotkin in his book "Anarchist Morality" that there are times when "everything that was good, large, generous, independent in man rusts slowly, like a knife oxidizes unused. The lie becomes virtuous, flattening into duty.

And, as Continues the rich nineteenth-bearded: " enjoying the moment, exhausting his intelligence, his enthusiasm, his energy, no matter how, it becomes the desideratum of the upper classes, as well as that of the miserable crowd, whose ideal is to apparent bourgeois "

RE-READING KROPOTKIN


Says Peter Kropotkin in his book "Anarchist Morality" that there are times when "everything that was good, large, generous, independent in man rusts slowly, like a knife oxidizes unused. The lie becomes virtuous, flattening into duty.

And, as Continues the rich nineteenth-bearded: " enjoying the moment, exhausting his intelligence, his enthusiasm, his energy, no matter how, it becomes the desideratum of the upper classes, as well as that of the miserable crowd, whose ideal is to apparent bourgeois "

Is the era of mesocracy, so named for José Ingenieros, this mass cretinism generated by a society in which everyone seeks only his own interests, where coexistence transformed into an endless struggle for survival, and in which the flags of opportunism, deceit and cunning are the trademarks of the human being "ready", perfectly adapted to a universe that can hardly be called with the word "society".

'Plant life around, admits cheating, lying, cunning, is debase, makes you small, recognizes yourself weak, of course, makes you like the servant of the harem, which believes herself less than his master, "tell us Peter Kropotkin as an example of a vital project that supports an ethic of expansion of life and fruitfulness of life. An ethic that will undoubtedly be ridiculed, undervalued, thrown it away by postmodern men, since we are talking about them. If the purpose of existence is only the immediate benefit, small advantage and narrow selfishness, if politics as Durruti said in his latest speech, it is only the art of tripping, the man who is honest,is in the words of Balzac, " the common enemy. " His bill should be unthinkable, its values, provoking hilarity; his efforts, will be seen as childish nonsenses.

Yet the call to be strong, to be generous, be courageous, to mark a sense of demanding and constructive life, expanding and even splurging (for life only grows spreading, gifting itself)his own vital forces. That damned call that causes skeptics shakes of head in the postmodern intellectual, all him "savoir vivre", can´t be drowned from the depths of what lives, of what likes to grow and is willing to tear down the obstacles that detein its genesis.

But all is against the man who tries to became a full and vital, productive human being. An entire culture of decadence, consciously builded since the think tanks from philosophical, sociological, psychological and other endless fields of knowledge converted into social control, completely surrounds the human being, drenching him in negativity and passivity. Anything goes: the mass consumption of drugs, ignorance disguised as a subculture, propaganda transvestite in entertainment, depression turned into vital rythm.

"Be strong: overflowing with passion and intellectual energy, and pour over the other your intelligence, your love, your activity." But remember that in front of the TV, there is no possible activity, from the ignorance (and there are those who, believing themselves superior to their grandparents for a formal education full of gaps and biases, never open a book in his life) you always assail the same red cloth gore, and since the grammar of despair and no future can not be built rather than the disease and emptiness.

Build, generate, learn, strengthen an iron will in a body open to all joys and all the air of intellect. Be multiple, being able to be laborious, be creative, to transform. That is a bet.

At the bottom of the decomposition process and social decay, says, too, Kropotkin another swing of the pendulum is inevitable:

"The youth is emancipated slowly, throws overboard prejudice, criticism becomes. The thinking awakes of course in some, but insensibly the awakening wins the majority, given the momentum, the revolution comes. "

Is not it about and the hour of the end of the night when the crack of dawn early bird start singing from the Levant (where is Hellas)?.

Jose Luis Carretero Miramar.