We host the Anarchist Winter School and the annual Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair. Transition towns are emerging everywhere. We must fight for the future of our children. Sure, the three Deals (A, B, C) are still in crisis, and this crisis has visibly deepened. The predominant deal can differ from one neighborhood to the next. Whether we kill ourselves, whether we sell out in our own special deals, find an opening or a refuge, win the lottery or throw Molotov cocktails, join the Sparts or the Bhagwan, scratch our ears or run amok: we’re finished. What I call
On the other hand, low technological work (including cleaning, repairing and maintenance) is geographically or organizationally separated from end-production and submitted to conditions similar to what I call the C-deal (largely female, marginal work). If we want to transform our spaceship into an agreeable place again, we’ve got to dismantle this Machine, repair the damage it has done, and come to come basic agreements on a new start. the present system is based on specialization, isolation and centralization, ifnformation is needed in order to prevent it from collapse. In France, Mexico and the Ukraine more than forty percent demand that it should be replaced by something completely different. Why not think Their basic axiom sounds so simple, that it almost hurts: “We help each other, we contribute things or services according to everybody’s possibilities for the benefit of others. But “things” happen…. Under these conditions, the circulation of money is not dangerous, and it can’t develop its “infecting” effects — money will remain a means only in a narrow frame.
Society always brings the risk of the return of the State, of power and politics. But due to the multiple networks of self-sufficiency, the situation should never become dangerous for a single region. The richest ten per cent of the world population now own 85 per cent of its assets. Is ironical resignation the only way out, hiding from ourselves our deceptions for the few rushing years we’ve got left? Of course, the Machine “knows” that we don’t like this life, and that it is not sufficient just to oppress our wishes. Most townships or counties (cities) organise daily, weekly or monthly markets, regions hold periodical fairs. These relatively rare fat cats are not the real problem. (This is particularly true for the most dangerous sorts of dirt, like chemical or radioactive wastes, which the cleanliness syndrome conveniently overlooks.) The crew was playing frustrated macho-games and tried to run the reactor much below security levels, in the same way you violate speed limits in a sports car. Development can be colonialist, independent (managed by indigenous elites or bureaucracies), socialist (state-capitalist), private capitalist, or some mix of these. You can give spontaneously, no time is needed for complicated bargaining or agreements for return. Another big change in the functioning of the A-deal consists in the geographical fragmentation of old homogenous A-deal areas. When the Machine kills, there aren’t yet enough ABC- Besides destroying illusions, increasing resignation, developing general apathy, reformist politics doesn’t achieve anything. It has dreamed a reality in which it is constantly tormented by conflict, catastrophe, crisis. The reactor got essentially out of control, because it was deprived of its cooling system. Other languages Our attitude isn’t a moral problem, not for us, much less for the Machine. The actual state can be transformed and so become a ready and easy tool of transition.
To crush the peasant rebellions and he growing independence of craftsmen in the towns, they introduced the factory system. In spite of this huge flood of goods, the quality of life plummets. The best illustration for this fact are the electoral politics of reformist parties. Dreams and utopias are sterilized in novels, films, commercialized music. As physical transportation will often be slower, less frequent and of lower capacity than today (see High wages and privileges are not granted because the Machine has a special desire for a certain kind of particular worker. The German and Swedish language libraries are the most recent additions.