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Title: The Catastrophe Psycosis Author: Anonymous Date: September 1989 Language: en Topics: apartheid, bureaucracy, class, ecology, green Source: Retrieved on September 1, 2009 from http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/insurcat.html Notes: from Insurrection, September 1989
For a long time now there has been a terroristic blackmail in act
leading to more and more recourse to the policeman-like logic of
emergency. The media carries out the task of upturning problems and
using the apocalyptic images of the imminence of catastrophe pushing
great masses of people to mobilize to avoid it.
One should ask oneself what lies behind the picture presented by the
media of the impending nightmare of ecological catastrophe. This is
presented as a problem to be resolved beyond the realms of social
relations or class conflict.
We have strong doubts about the show of good intentions made by
politicians of every kind and color (including the environmentalists)
and their sudden interest in the population’s health.
We think that behind the bombardment of news concerning the ecological
red alert in the areas of high industrial concentration where
atmospheric pollution safety levels have been amply surpassed, there
lies another far less noble battle: a battle for power between the old
capitalist-industrial class and the new ascending one constituted of the
public and private bureaucracy in view of the position the latter have
reached within the technological apparatus of capital and the state.
We know that the image of catastrophe, in this case the ecological one,
emotively pushes the mass to fight beyond any motivation coming from
their own specific condition of exploitation, not so much for social
change but to save their own threatened survival. That pushes them to
adopt the reasoning leading to the conservation of the present social
order.
The planet is dying, we all know it. It is full of poison and lacking in
oxygen because of atmospheric pollution. The rivers are biologically
dead; lakes and seas are reduced to dustbins; a greenhouse effect is
produced by the raising of the levels of carbon dioxide thanks also to
the massive work of deforestation of one of the main lungs of the earth,
the Amazon forest. Growing drought is causing the extension of vast new
deserts, and we are assisting in the tragedy of peoples and animal
species on their way to extinction, sacrificed to the logic of profit
and dominion.
Every class that aspires to domination brings with it its own world and
its own logic. The ascending bureaucrats are using ecology to accelerate
the process of taking over the old world.
But what can that cause in the mass, increasingly terrified by the
possibility of catastrophe and internalizing the logic of emergency, if
not total adhesion to the repressive codes of behavior dictated by
cybernetic power. With scientific punctuality it is inviting millions of
proletarianized individuals to participate and mobilize alongside the
institutions to create and institute new organisms of control and to
sanction new authorities under the thrust of a new democratic
radicalism.
Beyond its immediate drama, the Chernobyl nuclear accident gave capital
and all the states the chance to coldly experiment elements upon which
to apply the repressive projects of control and consensus, precisely by
exploiting the idea of a permanent state of emergency.
The emergency intervention therefore does not resolve the problem but
serves to install control in order to eliminate conflict over the social
territory through the blackmail of duty to collaboration between
classes. All the emergency measures that are presented as being
necessary for the general social interest, in actual fact give way to a
process of privilege and submission given the inequality of existing
material conditions.
The greens and environmental associations are not looking for a solution
to the problem of pollution but to a capillary and spreading control in
order to make it a source of profit. One discovers that the least
polluted parts of the cities are areas destined to the higher social
strata; the poor get square meters of cement and waste dumps on the
outskirts.
It is time then, instead of giving uncritical praise to such forces, to
unmask their role as the new social pacifiers who are going beyond the
spectacle rigged on the blackmail that “the planet must be saved at all
costs”, to lend themselves to managing existing alienation in an
alternative way, but always based on exploitation and oppression.
We think that the struggle against the domination of human over human is
the only basis from which to start. It is the only one capable of
attacking those responsible for the destruction of both the planet and
social wealth. We must aim concretely towards the liberation of humanity
and nature in the global sense.
The greens and environmentalists are so-called ecologists whose aim is
not a clean ecological planet; their politics are a green apartheid that
wants “green islands” destined to the comfort of the privileged. The
international environmental associations are the multinationals of
“ecology”, capitalism revised and corrected following the damage done by
its preceding phase of maximum industrialization.
The social struggle in the ecological sense is valid only if it strikes
the relationships of dominion, the structures of capital and the state,
showing its subversive force that contains the prospect of a new world,
not the alternative management of the old.