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Title: Bitter experience
Author: Rev Dia
Date: 30 November 2016
Language: en
Topics: Ukraine, war, anti-war
Source: Retrieved on 26th January 2022 from a translation of https://revdia.org/2016/11/30/girkij-dosvid/

Rev Dia

Bitter experience

Why are we being agitated to take part today in the holiday of death and

exile called ATO? Is this the struggle aimed at establishing a powerless

society of equal people? If this is not such a struggle, is it possible

to justify bloodshed for the benefit of the capitalists? Do our beliefs

allow us to kill other people for the benefit of oligarchs and

politicians? We believe this is directly contrary to our beliefs, but

why do some who call themselves anarchists do so?

Our answer is no. We forgot. Anarchism opposes all forms of

exploitation, but isn’t a state war exploitative? Or does anyone think

that if you fight on the other side of the barricades, you will oppose

exploitation? No, on both sides — the state. As we take part in this

war, we support the state machine of oppression, which will later crush

us, remember that. Makhno did not fight the Germans in a “united front”

with other participants in the Civil War, Makhno engaged in the

assertion of anarchist society in all its glory on his land —

Huliaipole. And not because it was his “Fatherland”, but because there

were his friends, relatives, people close to him, there were peasants,

who louder than all responded to the call for freedom thrown by the

anarchists.

Some people justify their participation in the anti-terrorist operation

by saying that they need “experience”. But is a person’s life on the

other side of the barricades worth such an experience? Is this life

worth the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians? This is not

a war of liberation, but a form of problem-solving by the bourgeois

government. And this must be understood. Neither side wants to improve

the lives of the beggar, the enslaved hired worker, the looting of the

peasant. Like any government, this one only supports capitalism, a means

of taking away the products of labor from the worker. And it also

creates hatred between nations.

The anarchist movement opposes all forms of government and the state and

their results — poverty, hunger, war, injustice and ignorance.

All those who support the war today forget that innocent people are

dying there, dying for the benefit of others, that on both sides they

are ordinary people, of flesh and blood, who love and rejoice, the

growth of children and have loved ones. Can we deprive them of such joy

because of the benefits of the oligarchs?

Anarchists should fight against the state and capital, and not play

pawns in games freaks in uniform.

Our goal is an uncompromising struggle with the state and its allies, in

any form and by any means. Can innocent people die? Our primary goal is

freedom, human dignity, so we will not allow even a tenth of the

destruction that even a tiny war can bring, unlike politicians.