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Title: Writings of Alper Sapan Author: Alper Sapan Date: Date Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:15:54 +0300 Language: en Topics: anti-civ, language, mass society Source: https://karalale.noblogs.org/ Notes: Origian title: www.ainfos.ca/tr/ainfos05194.html Translator: Karalale Credit goes to our dead comrade ¨I am Alper Sapan. I am an anarchist who 19 years old. I am against the injustice, exploitation and oppression of the state. I am rejecting violence and the state. I am listening to the voice of my conscience and objecting the military system for a world that no borders, no wars and no nations. I will not die, I will not kill for anybody and will not be anybody's soldier. Before militarism ends our lives let's end militarism.¨ --Alper Sapan More info on Alper Sapan https://wri-irg.org/en/Alper-Sapan
Don´t be scared to be radical. Because the masses will change in radical
ways. People whom cherishes state and religion in past, they´ll see
themselves as the enemies later. As a matter of fact, they´ll not spare
the enemies who has stolen their past. If so, what´s the drawback? The
masses will never feel ready themselves fully, as they´ll find
somethings as an excuse to not be radical. — Poor masses already has
nothing to lose. All the synthetic belongings(labels which makes us feel
we belong somewhere) are cracking and two different world is showing
itself. On one hand, a numb gray world with the struggle against the
state is claimed by the state and there is nothing left to do other than
meaningless(aimless) acts of violence, and on the other hand a
completely dystopian oppressive censorative totalitarian dark world. The
common points of these two worlds is that there are people who´re ready
to explode.
To be the fire of the masses who´s waiting like a powder-keg comes from
being like a very hard and thick spark. We must express all of our
ideas(thoughts) with bareness as there´s no need to worry about herding
the masses, they´re much more radical than we´re.
We shouldn´t hesitate to target religious institutions, family,
rulership(authority) among the friends, civilization and everything.
We´ve to destroy every taboos. The path to the Anarchy may be radical
however the anarchy is what needs to be, while capitalism being the
negative radical.
In my opinion there will not be an anarchist society, but anarchy. The
anarchy in the question, is the unity small voluntary self-governing
communes organized on plurality of individuals at the same time.
In capitalist economy money is a meta, not a tool. We work to obtain the
money meta and trade it for another meta of its value. Like wise the
value of money is like other metas, changing. What keeps money separate
from other metas is that it can be traded for anything. While a
worker(employee) earns their wage, he makes his labor meta and trades it
for money. While we try to achieve a targeted meta(food, clothing, etc.)
we put money as a secondary meta in between, If individuals had trust
for each other (Anarchy/Communism) or the money became worthless against
other metas (Economic Crisis/Inflation), we wouldn´t need money anyway.
So then there is this suggestion, everybody should consume as much as
they need and everyone should do the work they can do best.
In addition to the communist economic model, the Spanish collectivists
used hourly coupon sheets during Spanish Revolution. They were buying
coupons as much as working hours and trading them for other metas, as
they were no environment to abolish money and the ideology. On near
past, during the economic crises in Argentina and Spain, people stopped
using money and came up with alternatives. Again it was based on the
logic of the coupon sheets in the civil war.
For me, I reject any kind of money, collectivism(like the coupon sheets,
etc). Because the difference i see between coupon sheets and money is
the abolishment of the work hierarchy(no difference between an engineer
and a worker) but this alteration of the money meta is still inadequate.
Language is the most important institution that makes human human.
Person don´t know it from birth, but you learn it after birth, from
family or the individuals around the person. It contains society,
culture, the state in itself. It shapes social relationships, affects
the way you think and what you think. Without language, thoughts are
meaningless because it cannot be reflected. How it is transmitted is
within the limits of the language. As you see, our language is our
worlds borders. This borders are created by the society. Isn´t it
illogical not to attack language, when the language and ideas are so
intertwined and we expect our struggle to influence ideas. The change of
ideas without the change of language means the idea is without
foundationless(spineless, unbased etc) or meaning it can be easily
dissipated. The marginalization of ideas slightly comes from here.
Language is political. What is meant by politics here is, it´s within
the reach of the rulership(authority). Since the birth of the
society(civilization), the rulerships(authority) has heavily influenced
the language. Anarchy meaning terror, or the word ¨woman¨ as a gender
name/concept is seen lower than the word ¨lady¨, or the word faggot is
seen lower(more degrading) than the word gay, or that the definiton of
terrorism is in inadequate and any
anti-rulership(anti-government/anti-authority) movement can be
reconciled with terrorism and with many other examples this can be
increased. By banning words or adding new words, rulerships(authorities)
directly interfere with the public(can be society as well) life.
Let me give you an example from today. As Tayyip Erdogan calls
CHP(Republican People´s Party) -CEHAPE- instead of -CEHEPE-. This is an
example of political language[Language being political and political
language is different from one and each other]. In public Erdogan
supporters say CEHAPE, while opponents of tayyip say CEHEPE. Likewise
this is the case withing PKK(Kurdistan Workers’ Party). Can you see the
difference between PEKEKE and PEKAKA? The language has the power capable
of dividing society into poles.
What makes language so privileged is that it plays a formative role in
social relations. My love, my darling, my babe, while words are the
marker of interpersonal property, giving names to something is
propertizing that thing as well. The person who puts a name to an animal
or approves the proposed name confirms its ownership to the society. The
family has the right to name or confirm the name of their newborn
children. This can´t be some random person who approves the name,
because the baby has nothing to do with him. However if the baby is the
baby of that random person, they can say it. As the greatest
representative of property is inside of our language, by naming things.
Another example of the structures of the social relationships is the
absence of profanity in Japanese such as ¨fuck your mother´s
pussy(´senin ananın amını sikeyim´ is a turkish swear word)¨. Even if
you try to say it, you may get an answer like, ¨my mother is old, why
would you want to do that?¨
Swear words expresses the clearest picture of what society sees down.
Bastard, dog, swine, bitch, animal, whore, slut, pussy, cunt, dickhead,
asshole, bitch, faggot, son of a bitch, pagan son of a bitch etc etc..
The list is too long to explain individually, but when you read it
critically, you can see all those ideas, the rulership(authority)
lurking beneath the swears right? I didn´t write any of these swear
words just so i could write it nor for just to say those slurs. It shows
the authority under every swear/slur.
Language is not only political, sexual or social means of authority, but
also a authority in itself. Everywhere; at home, at work, on street, at
school, in our room, next to us, in our heads there is an authority. An
indestructible but reformable rulership(authority), it´s enough to be
aware of it.
Human is like, in love with their torturing masochistic nightmare. Even
scientifically secured them and isolated them to nothingness. They
define dreams as unreal, so nightmare becomes a dream of the unreality
of daydreaming. Men(gender neutral) has trapped themselves in the trap
of reality.
Laws of nature, logic, mathematics, economic necessity and social
responsibilities form the boundaries of the trap of reality. Since men
perpetuates the dream that they´re powerless, power comes from external
authorities that forces them to submit: God, life, state, morality,
progress, prosperity, future, productivity. On the base of these
demands, they invent the ¨meaning of life¨, which they´ll feel guilty as
they´re left in an endless, unhappy tensions where they forget who
they´re and what they´re capable of.