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Title: Pseudoanarchist Federation Author: Anonymous Date: 21.11.2020 Language: en Topics: post-left, criticism, anarchist federation, insurrection, critique, anarchist federation, organization Source: https://pl.anarchistlibraries.net/library/anonim-federacja-pseudoanarchistyczna Notes: Translated from Polish
Even though this text was originally supposed to be directed towards the
Anarchist Federation in Poland (Federacja Anarchistyczna), it wouldn’t
be a far stretch to say that it shouldn’t be directed towards every
single "officially unofficial" leading anarchist organization around the
world as well.
While these massive (and supposedly) anarchist organizations monopolize
anarchism by telling individuals how to properly "do anarchism"
(whatever that means) and by ostracizing those, who do not share the
same principles and praxis [1], there are those who confront the
majority and act against it, even on the surface level, by writing texts
similar to this one.
Insurrectionism in Poland is dead; in fact, it has never truly lived.
But so is anarcho-syndicalism - dead; it is a rotten corpse, wandering
since before the Second World War, first through the indirectly
anti-anarchist regime of so-called real socialism, and then through the
neoliberal wastelands of Polish catholic conservatism in hope - or to be
more precise - in belief, of being revived. Besides two really small
anarcho-syndicalist unions (actually, one of them doesn't consider
itself anarcho-syndicalist, but for their advantage, let's suppose there
are two), anarcho-syndicalism isn't really a thing. And yet, it is the
pompous (and mainly) anarcho-syndicalist AF that is patronizing, due to
it dominating anarchism in Poland.
I did not translate "Pseudoanarchist Federation" to annoy the Polish AF,
neither to publicly complain how much the AF here sucks – it does, but
not in its entirety, since it is varied. The AF has been doing a lot of
good for some workers, for other anarchists, for certain oppressed
groups, and even for anarchism itself. I am not trying to diminish the
influence of Polish anarcho-syndicalism on the movement of today or to
completely eradicate it. I just want the anarcho-outsiders to know, that
if the following translated words relate to you and your experiences you
had with the local anarcho-monopolist, you are not alone with these
thoughts and observations – no matter where you’re from, who you are, or
what your anarchist background is.
I am not the original author of this call, but in a sense, I am the
co-author, just as you, just as anybody else: not because I wrote it
alongside the one who did, because I didn’t, but because I subscribe to
what has been written here.
These workers’ revolutions, these proletarian utopias, these pamphlets
and newspapers of yours – who cares about them, really?
The revolutionary situation has been, is, and will always be here, if
only you filter the picture of everyday life through enough lenses. So
where are your militias, proudly replacing the Polish flag flying on the
Sejm building [2] with black and red banners? Let's face it - there are
none because nobody needs that. There shall be no more heroic clashes on
the barricades - these dreams have died, if they were even still alive
at all, together with the Paris Commune. It's still better than the
syndicalist and anarcho-communist pipe dreams that didn't even get to
become overdue as they never were valid. The 21st century is a time of
ubiquitous cameras, police states with a human face, cyberdystopias
adorned equally with Coca-Cola advertising banners, and corporations
boasting of producing green, "friendly" energy.
You are the first to shout after Durutti that "the only church that
enlightens is a burning church". At the same time, you wash your hands
of it and mumble embarrassedly about your friendly social image when
angry youngsters set fire to some Christian shrine of suffering in
Bumfuck Nowhere. You applaud when you see pictures of puppets of bishops
hanging on gallows from an overpass somewhere across the ocean but you
do nothing so that instead of these puppets hung those who every day
turn people into serfs, pigs, ready to be slaughtered with smiles on
their faces. Why is it that on the bridges of Warsaw [3] there is not
even a puppet of the altar boy and nun raping Cardinal, let alone the
Cardinal himself?
You proudly hand out hundreds of leaflets and newspapers at your
demonstrations to liberals and social democrats from rich families who
have no conception of suffering, while your comrades, who are squatting
tenement houses forgotten by the system, burn them in their stoves. No
amount of talk about revolution, printed by you on cheap paper, can warm
their hearts. It's a good thing that from time to time they at least
warm their freezing, wire- and glass-scarred hands. Are you ailing,
tired, gripped by depression? That's all right, you don't have to build
bombs or clear cities of fascist garbage with your own hands. Just don't
preach your pacifist morals to the fighters whose blood is spilling on
the city pavement before your eyes.
You meet in your cramped apartments, which this shitty system has thrown
at you like a few scraps of meat from the lord's table. While you are
having your revolutionary-worker discussions about nothing, real
proletarian youths are crouched down smoking cigarettes outside your
housing blocks. You hasten to call them rednecks and chavs [4], while
they are fed their fascist propaganda by patriotic rappers or
national-socialist rock bands. Nazis don't even have to try, they don't
even have to steal the proletariat from you, because it's simply not
yours.
Let the trumpets of wrath blow, by the deities of vengeance, slumbering
deep within each and every one of us. Let cathedrals burn because we
don't want any Christian theology of liberation. Let the walls of the
Sejm crumble into dust, for we do not want your National Trade Union
Parliament [5] there. Let the bones of officers and politicians be
broken, for we want no allied policemen and revolutionary prophets.
We want war. And we fight it, every day. Why don't you finally join in?
[1] i.e. the historically mainly anarcho-syndicalist AF in Poland,
probably due to the fear of lacking its pro-social reputation in the
eyes of… who knows who exactly - probably the mythical "masses", opposes
individualist, nihilist, and insurrectionist anarchist schools of
thought, claiming that these unorthodox (non-)ideologies only hurt the
image of anarchism and in addition provide nothing for anarchism’s sake
[2] the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland; the most
important and most recognizable political building for the Polish
society
[3] the Polish capital
[4] Sebastiany [Seby] i Karyny – a pejorative term typically describing
teens and young adults from poor families associated with pathological
behavior; Seba(stian) is a man’s name, and Karyna – a woman’s name.
[5] Ogólnokrajowy Parlament Związków Zawodowych – this is probably a
reference to the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OgĂłlnopolskie
Porozumienie ZwiÄ…zkĂłw Zawodowych (OPZZ)), implying that we are not
interested in participating in the anarcho-syndicalist struggle, whose
objective is to be as controlling and shitty, as the OPZZ