Towards a post--Liberal metaphysics (neo/post-positivism)

Post-positivist deconstruction is the cutting edge of ex-humanism...

Postmodern dystopian film: Terminator (1984), The Truman Show (1997), Gattacca (1998), The Matrix (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Island (2005). This genre has opened a new field for metaphysics. The classical metaphysics is mysticism (Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Sufism); the new metaphysics is an exploration of the nature, applications and implications of virtual reality as a man made metaphysical space, emergent in the post-fordist era. What is real ? "Real" is whatever we perceive "real" to be, but real has no verifiable intrinsic essence per se. "Real" is defined by language and symbols; dynamic narratives and images. "Real" can be constructed and de-constructed.

The postmodern understanding and internalization of the implications of relativity, perspective and perception (dubbed 'post-positivism') debunks the narrative of "cogito ergo sum". The contention that "I am" is only a thought. To state that "I am" because "I think" is self contradictory. "I am" has no objective existence because it is a thought (an idea) that has no material basis, as such it can not be considered evidence of existence. Ultimately, no one can know for certain if they exist or not. If "I" is a tought, then what is considered to be "THE SELF" has no objective existence. The idea of "The Self " is a subjective construct - not natural. Ergo: "Identity" is both meaningless and disposable. The element of psyche that hides behind the notion of "The Self" is an aggregate of, mostly contradictory, subjectivities. Perfect subjective consistency would be impossible for humans to attain because they will always lack total information awareness. "Personae" (how the group subject perceives the single subject), is an entirely disposable and projected subjectivity. Subjectivities are the product of the psychic interaction of the subject with dynamic narratives and symbols of a de-ontological and social nature. The dynamic narratives and sub-narratives that inform humans evolve as organisms evolve in relation to time and space, dynamic narratives are to humans what software applications are to machines.

Post-positivist deconstruction also has implications regarding the notion of Time-Space. "Past" and "Future" have no objective existence outside thought. The past is selective memory - memory that can be deleted or edited. The future is only projection - at best educated wishful thinking. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, for a valid reason. "History" is the selective narrative of selective memory - no historical or journalistic narrative can claim to represent "truth", as long as in context of constructing a given narrative of events the historian or journalist subjectively decides what information to present or omit. Because it is a subjective process, the decision to omit or present information in context of a narrative will always be influenced by biases of a social, cultural -or even political- nature. No existing historical or journalistic narrative is "truth" - there only exist competing narratives of "the past" or "current events". The notion of "the present", is problematic because it assumes that time-space is not dynamic, it is thus premised on a false view of static reality that denies ongoing organic transformation processes that, although not perceptible to humans, do take place - case in point the problem of quantum physics. The "laws of physics" as perceived by humans break down at the level of quanta... "the present" is constantly ceasing to be and becoming and there is no guarantee that what comes-to-be is "better" than what ceases-to-be. The notion of "better" (constitutive to "progress") is subjective. So back to the original questions: What is "Real" ? What is "Truth"? Is "Truth" the same as "Reality"? What is real is relative to perception and perceptions can be managed. What is truth is limited to available - always imperfect - information. Truth is not the same as reality, because the information that premises notions of truth is always imperfect. Perhaps the substitute for an answer that will never be discovered is to recall and accept the maxim of Socrates: "I do not know what I do not know".

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Yesterday I understood that in Sweden, the managed appearance of "humanitarianism" is only a mask for xenophobic dislike of foreigners. The Swedish political class is very clever; they know that for geographical and historical reasons, latent xenophobia is part of the collective psychology in this society - like a hidden narrative in the collective subconscious. They focus group, they triangulate, they craft language and they spin it; they appeal to this latent fear of "the other" with targeted messages and coded symbols in order to collect votes. In Sweden, populism has been synthesized with perception management as a practical means to administer a nativist herd morality. The Swedish political class really believe in the narrative of "Sweden". They believe that it exists. The premise of all psychosis is to believe that a perception, that in fact has no material substance or basis, has a material substance and basis. Note that this is not a commentary on metaphysical belief systems, but a commentary on a perception that is popularly considered to be "materially true". Sweden is only a narrative, ultimately just an idea, and not a material entity. What "actually exists" in "material reality" are eight million blond people living on half a forested peninsula. Now I understand what Noam Chomsky meant when he defined the populism of the 20th century fascists and Bolsheviks as a dynamic application of "organic entity theories". The nationalism of the political class that governs the Swedish State is definitely organic, almost pathological. No wonder I am having so much trouble with the police... The anti-identity, anti-national narrative that I subscribe to is the living anti-thesis to the dynamic narrative the Swedish State promotes as a means to facilitate the collective management and control of the society. In entering into a post-collision jujitsu with the Swedish State, I have come to experience in situ what Nietzsche meant by the antagonism of Man against the Herd. Maybe the police are correct after all, when they say they must keep me under surveillance in a secured building in order to protect their society. I am a potentially disruptive element. I am Yin and the police are Yang. The Syndicalists and assorted leftists who associate with them are all wrong; it is not the cheap alcohol or the steady flow of welfare checks that keep the people loyal to the political class, and it is not the policy of "repressive tolerance" that maintains social cohesion. I am afraid it is much worse than that:

Swedish nationalism is a State-managed dynamic narrative that results in collective psychosis.

-veremos.

Social Democrat Liquidationist

The liquidation of the Social Democrat structure is a political necessity. The liquidation of Liberalism is a historical task. The former must precede the latter for the FREE STATE to emerge. One cannot happen without the other. They are complementary for synthesis.

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In the post-modern society of the fragmented “self”; in the fragmented “culture” that emerged in the wake of the post-structuralist shock-wave; having transcended the cultural impact of the the World Wide Web and wireless applications; having experienced the lived moment of anarchy in context of the anti-globalisation upsurge: I conclude that “left” and “right” are meaningless words, that politics in the third age of the open society revolve around issues of Ecology, Technology, Identity and Life.

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The Free Market Is Not Capitalism.

Socialism Is Not the Welfare State.

Autonomy Is Not Liberty.

Individuality Is Not Individualism.

Cooperation Is Not Collectivism.

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[“POST-QUEER”: Social Constructivist, Anti-Essentialist, Anti-Sexualist, Incidentalist.
The notion of “Queer Nation” is a manufactured pseudo-community premised on essentialist and sexualist ideologies. “Queer Nation” is an idealist narrative.]

[“POST-INTERNATIONALIST”: Supra-National, A-National, A-Nativist, Counter-Colonialist. The active denial of “nationality” narratives and “national” illusions.]

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INFO/ECOTOPIA: The Third Way should become a Third Sector: Not Private and Not State. The Third Sector would formulate and implement solutions to valid social and ecological concerns. Social Services (Safety Net, Healthcare, Education-Culture, Transparency); Ecological Sustainability Systems (such as Stable State Recycling and Sustainable Energy); and both “infrastructure” (extensive) and “social” (intensive access) expansion of the Wireless Mobile Flat Earth Network (The Grid) would be administered by non-profit NGO’s. The NEW GLOBAL PUBLIC SECTOR would be financed by a Tax on Global Financial Transactions (Tobin Tax) and Flat Bioregion-local Ecological Taxes; Existing National income, estate and capital gains taxes would be abolished. Energy becomes the new currency with the PHOTOVOLTAIC-HYDROGEN economy: An economic system where natural wealth, energy, human labour and information are valued before they are processed. The Wireless Mobile Flat Earth Network evolves into a TAX FREE forum of information and services exchanges.

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AN OPEN SOCIETY BASED ON FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.

“A World Where Many Worlds Are Possible”

THE SOLUTION IS DECENTRALISATION.

(THINKGLOBALACTLOCALTHINKGLOBAL)

The Bankruptcy of the Western Left.

”La apariencia de administracion profesional es en realidad la administracion profesional de apariencias.” - El Libertario.

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Anti-globalisation has died a quiet death in its sleep…

Total ideologies and total solutions are obsolete. They became obsolete in the mid 1990’s. The anti-globalisation ‘upsurge’ of 1999-2003 was the last hurrah of the 20th Century Western Left. It is “objectively true” that “another world is always possible” and that such a world COULD BE built on the basis of “social and ecological solutions”, but it is clear now that the so-called ‘movement of movements’ calling on these slogans failed. It simply evaporated. The demonstrations against global capital and war became ritualised. Social democrat careerists penetrated the organisational networks and degraded the programmatic horizon to the level of electoral work in favour of the social-liberal wing of capitalism. These finks were aided in the process by “Trotskyist” opportunists more interested in selling their propaganda and paraphernalia than in advancing the cause of anti-capitalism. Former members of the Black Bloc mutated into armchair activism pretending to be “anarchist”, “feminist”, or “green”; illustrating what Situationist social critic Guy Debord once denounced as “the spectacle”. The Western Left has retreated to the ‘safe’ confines of Academia and Media. I do not mean to say that it is not worth it to read the works of Noam Chomsky or to listen to Pacifica Radio, to browse the pages of World Socialist Website or surf the Indymedia domains. All this is necessary to get “The Truth”. Yet, in doing so one must remember that one is interacting with narratives and symbols that have no objective substance.

The war is coming and there will be no ‘general strike’ to stop it. There will be no second coming of Lenin, Trotsky, Mao or Che before the tactical nukes and white phosphorus begin to hit. ‘Shake and Bake’ with no Soviets. The coming war will decide if the neoliberal capitalist world of the 21st century is going to be unipolar or multipolar. It cannot be both. Looking at the recent historical pattern it is likely that the Real War is just around the corner. The 2001/2003 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2006 Israeli war against Hizbollah (and subsequent asymmetrical warfare continuums) are only a precursor for the horrors that are to come. In all cases: The 20th Century Left is DEAD. It tried to save itself in the 1999-2003 period of anti-neoliberal ‘upsurge’ by co-opting information technologies and by modifying its traditional “class warfare” narrative with language and concepts borrowed from Ecology and Feminism; and it did accomplish in this manner the brief flash of an anti-capitalist mood – but it did not stop the imposition of neo-liberal capitalism (so-called “market democracy” sic.) as the official ideology of globalisation. The ‘Multitude’ of Negri fizzled out into the mass of consumers.

The bankruptcy of the Western Left

It is clear that the Western Left has no theoretical solutions; save to appeal to recycled social democrat formulas. Tactically it has become suicidal. In the United States, the “Turtle-Teamster” project opted for exactly this course by following Kerry in 2004. With the possible exception of the few principled elements who bravely followed Ralph Nader, the bulk of the “1999 Movement” of “Battle of Seattle” lore died on November 2, 2004. Kerry destroyed the North American anti-globalisation and anti-war movements – with the help of the anti-globalisation and anti-war activists themselves. The Democrat party was able to – once more- perform its systemic and historical role as gravedigger of social movements. The same process of co-option happened again in lieu of the brief upsurges of social outrage in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster and with the recent Immigrant Rights movement. As long as North American anti-capitalists and progressives do not take the step to admit that there is no “lesser evil” they will never advance. The United States anti-capitalist progressive community is still under the influence of Liberalism: The belief in “constitutional rights” and related illusions. “We The People” really means “We the WEALTHY people”. The United States anti-capitalist intelligentsia and progressive media workers know this fact, but they continue to prefer to not draw appropriate conclusions.

In Western Europe the official death of the upsurge came in the summer of 2005 with the Glenn Eagles-7/7 fiasco in the UK. A mixture of ritualised demonstrations in context of police repression (cynically dubbed “post-anarchism” by some), “Make Poverty History” co-option (orchestrated by Bono, Madonna and the Labour Party), and well-timed ‘false flag’ terrorism did the job. And it was over. Fast forward to 2007: “Everyone is a Feminist” has become fashion in the West European “left” café scene. Lately the German and French “Greens” are working closely with their respective neo-Conservative parliamentary counterparts in Berlin and Paris. There is a widespread and blatant upsurge of anti-Arab (and anti-Russian) racism throughout Western Europe. The term ‘Islam fascism’ is making the rounds in the editorial pages of the mainstream news media. The European presidency is fast working to introduce “American conditions” into the Euro zone, meaning that a wave of continent wide mass lay offs with no or drastically reduced unemployment benefits will impact the working class. The truth is that a depressingly demoralising form of lifestyle ‘anti-capitalism’ has become the norm among former anti-war and anti-globalisation activists. The social-liberals have joined the political Right.

Meanwhile – on both sides of the Atlantic- the targets of neoliberal repression and austerity – immigrants and the unemployed – find themselves with no organised movement to appeal to for redress. No hope but a crude survivalism in context of overall post-social erosion and grotesque narratives of “national security” and “generational war” …

Unless socially and ecologically concerned people (re-)act.

Moving Beyond The Religion of Trotskyism

''ALL I KNOW IS THAT I AM NOT A MARXIST'' - Karl Marx

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'' Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. A proof of this is for example, that, because of aversion to any personality cult, I have never permitted the numerous expressions of appreciation from various countries with which I was pestered during the existence of the International to reach the realm of publicity, and have never answered them, except occasionally by a rebuke. When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes." - KARL MARX

("Against Personality Cults," from a November 10, 1877 letter to W. Blos)

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1. As a precursor to the emergence of Libertarian/Democratic Socialism from below, I am interested in building and organising anti-capitalist SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; and NOT ''socialist parties'' or ''anarchist networks''. My focus and priority as an anti-capitalist who wants to destroy capitalism is in process dynamics and not institutional construction. ''The paper'' is to the neo-Trotskyist what the ikon is to the Orthodox Catholic. In the same manner that the ikon serves as imaginary intemediary between feligresi and ''creator'' (sic.); the neo-Trotskyist newspaper serves as intermediator between the cadre and ''the massess'' (sic.)

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2. Trotskyism is a secular religion of the Left. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are famous for having considered that the criticism of religion is the precondition for all criticism as it concerns political-economy and social questions. In our days this critical approach must be applied to the various secular Leftist cults: The Cult of Trotsky, The Cult of Che, The Cult of Mao and the Cult of Joe Hill. The anti-capitalist movement must work to extirpate these cults from the movement in order to prevent them from derrailing it in its advance.

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3. Because I choose out of free will to agree with the subjective premise that Libertarian/ Democratic Socialism would be the rule of virtue (assuming the neo-Platonic premise that Justice is the Rule of Virtue and subsequently that Socialism is that ''Virtue'' that equals ''Justice''); I am interested in promoting the ideal of Libertarian/Democratic Socialism as a positive solution and logical alternative to the system of applied injustice that is capitalism. I am not interested in the sale of partisan newspapers or of branded propaganda materials as raison d'etre. A consistent anti-capitalist cannot be a salesman; rather he or she should be, fundamentally, a persuader. As socialism should not be for sale: I do not wish to participate in the process of commercialisation of socialist ideas. I rather be one of those who gives away the paper and the buttons and the litterature. I am one of those who would encourage the interested to ''STEAL THIS BOOK''.

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4. The true measurement of ''success'' for an anti-capitalist activist and proponent of Libertarian /Democratic Socialism (acting in context of actually existing social movements), is how effective they might be at persuading others to join the social movement in question and beyond that convincing them in context of the said movilisation that Libertarian/Democratic Socialism is the solution to the depredations of neo-liberal capitalism in our times. It is NOT about how effective they might be at selling''Anarchist'' or ''Socialist'' merchandise or related branded paraphernalia on the market. Monetarist accounting is not what makes a socialist. My priority focus as an anti-capitalist activist is (1) on the promotion of Libertarian/Democratic Socialist ideas as a solution and (2) on contributing to the organisation and growth of contrarian social movements. Always with a bias towards the economic and the political of course (because ''there'' is where the money and the power are concentrated); but never really dismissing the potential that might exist on the ''cultural'' aspects of the social. And yes, I am clear that ''the cultural'' is socially constructed.

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5. As a whole, Trotskyism has failed in the historical field. There was never a ''political revolution'' in the Eastern Bloc. There never has been a ''permanent revolution'' in the neo-colonial world. The ''Transitional Program'' never broke the workers from the social democratic farse in the developed western countries. Keep in mind that Trotskyists have been reformulating THE SAME THEORIES over and over again since the 1930's with no tangible results.

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6. There are no ''socialist parties'' or ''anarchist networks''; only very small groups (of committed people no doubt), who think to themselves and tell each other that they are. The only ''real socialists'' are those who practise socialism, and to be a ''real socialist'' one must first be an anti-capitalist. I am interested in the formulation of a new political syntesis, a new praxis. One that might involve the insights of Marx when applicable - and yes maybe even those of Trotsky, other dissident Marxists like Rosa Luxembourg and Andres Nin and the anarcho-syndicalists. But fundamentally, an anti-capitalist synthesis that proposes what is understood to be ''Libertarian/Democratic Socialism'' and that presents itself to a contemporary post-modern public with a brand new language and a psychology of conceptualisations rooted in current events, struggles and conditions. Not a recapitulation of outdated interpretations of Marx, not a cosmetically refinished representation of the postulates of Trotsky, Che or Anarco-Syndicalism. Rather, a brand new synthesis for our times.

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Anyone who states that only they or their party or thir network is ''right'' is WRONG. Anyone who claims full knowledge of absolute truth is a LIAR. As I begun, I end with another important quote from Marx: ''Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx ''Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right'' (1843) .

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Semper Indomitus !

p.s. I do not know the whole truth - no one does. I do not claim to be ''right'' - I am willing to admit (along with Marx) that I might not be. Ask your favorite ''Trotskyist'' or ''Anarcho-Syndicalist'' ideologue to do the same... see where that gets you.

S.I.

( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/26/18300693.php)

How Socialism will Liberate Lesbian Womyn

According to socialist Friedrich Engel's, the function of the patriarchal nuclear family under capitalism is to ensure the reproduction of male property inheritors and to force women to provide those social services (such as childcare), that capitalism refuses to pay for. A socialist perspective on patriarchy and homophobia must proceed from a critique of the nuclear family as a capitalist institution. The homophobic ideology of ''family values'' that conservatives defend - a false consciousness - exists to legitimise the capitalist patriarchy. The Lesbian Woman is hated by the social conservative because She represents the living negation of the capitalist patriarchy. She refuses to reproduce and she refuses to be shackled by compulsory heterosexuality.

Socialism will not abolish the family per se, rather it will eliminate the socio-economic foundations of the capitalist patriarchy and the homophobia it requires to exist. Socialism will abolish the social conditions that engender homophobia by eliminating the social requirement to only engage in heterosexual relationships. In a socialist society all persons will be free to pursue the sexual and emotive relations of their choice with whom they prefer regardless of gender. In fact, codified gender roles will be transcended. Socialism will allow for the eradication of homophobia in schools, public services, and workplaces through educational campaigns; equal access; equal pay for equal work; and the strict enforcement of equality and non-discrimination rules.

Socialism will guarantee free abortion on demand to all women and provide free access to health care services specific to the needs of Lesbian Women and Transgendered persons. Childcare will be socialised, thereby freeing women to pursue educational opportunities of their choice (free of charge) and subsequently enter the workforce in any area of their choice. A democratically planned socialist economy, will remove economic need as a motive for entering emotive and sexual relations. The socio-economic basis for prostitution will be removed. No longer will working class women and boys be compelled to sell their sex to men as a commodity in the market. Under socialism human sexuality will be decommodified.


Semper Indomitus !


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Upsurge of Struggle for LGBT Democratic Rights in Eastern Europe -by Miguel Amanda. July 24, 2006.

On Saturday July 22nd, the LGBT community in Riga, Latvia held a demonstration in favor of democratic rights in defiance of the city authorities. The government of the city of Riga had acted on July 19th to effectively ban a LGBT pride march scheduled for that day. The authorities cited “threats of terrorist attacks” as the reason for banning the march and further characterized the event as “the biggest security risk” faced by Latvia after winning independence from the Soviet Union. The request to stage the pride event had been made by Mozanka, the Latvian LGBT association. "We are shocked by the city council's decision, which we view as not only an unacceptable restriction of the freedom of assembly, but a major blow to democracy", said Mozanka board member Linda Freimane. The July 22nd demonstration was attended by activists and parliamentarians from Sweden, Germany and the UK. Although there was no overt repression on the part of the police, they where criticized for taking a passive stance while LGBT demonstrators where attacked by social-conservative and neo-Nazi counter demonstrators. One attending Swedish parliamentarian was injured in the altercations that took place. The ban and the negligence of the police were denounced by a number of international Human Rights NGOs; notably Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. This prompted Latvian president Vike-Freiberga to state that the refusal by the city of Riga to authorize the pride parade was “unacceptable in a democratic country”.

The attempt by the Riga authorities to undermine the democratic rights of LGBT communities in the city came after a series of advances made by the LGBT communities in Russia and Poland over the past few months.

On March 2 solidarity demonstrations where held in front of Russian embassies and consulates in West European capitals denouncing the ban of a planned Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender pride march in Moscow. The demonstrations where called by IDAHO (International Day against Homophobia), a Human Rights NGO based in Paris. This development points to an upsurge of awareness among those in the West concerned with the negative situation that GLBT peoples face in ’’post-soviet’’ Eastern Europe and Russia.

The support expressed by supporters of the LGBT community outside Russia inspired the Rainbow Community in Moscow to hold two spontaneous pride demonstrations in favor of democratic rights for free assembly and freedom of speech on May 27th. The demonstrations were met with repression from police and from groups of counter-demonstrators including neo-Nazi skinheads, Muslim clerics and faithful of the Orthodox Church. The Courts upheld the Moscow government ban on the gay pride demonstrations despite the fact that the Russian Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and assembly; and despite the fact that a criminal complaint was filed by Moscow pride organisers against religious clerics ’’for inciting hatred towards a social group’’, which is prohibited by Article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russia. May 27th represents the national ’’comming out’’ of the LGBT community in Russia. Some have called it “the Russian Stonewall” .Gay Pride organisers in Moscow are planning to hold another march in the spring of 2007 despite the threat of a ban.

The movement for LGBT equality and human rights in Russia has inspired a similar upsurge of struggle in Poland. Despite a ban by the Warsaw city government; approximately 2,500 LGBT campaigners and supporters from Western Europe marched on the city in June.

The Warsaw Equality March was a success. Demonstrators carried placards reading: “The World is Watching” as representatives of the European media marched along to record the proceedings.

Although the police conducted a tight security operation there where no reports of violent incidents. Groups of skinheads associated with the youth wing of the “League for Polish Families” – a Roman Catholic political group – delivered verbal abuse upon the pride demonstrators but where prevented from engaging in physical violence by the police. It is a sign of cultural progress, in Roman Catholic dominated Poland, that the LGBT community can exercise its rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

According to Igor Yasin a member of Socialist Resistance (the CWI in the country); ’’Our task as socialists is to show that only by fighting capitalism and its state machine together with all the poisonous prejudices that come out of capitalism and by building a new society based on freedom and equality - a socialist society - can [the question of LGBT rights] be tackled once and for all.’’

There can be no socialism without LGBT freedom. There can be no LGBT freedom without socialism.

** An edited Swedish-language version of this article was published in July of 2006 in the Socialist newspaper ''Offensiv'' press organ of the Justice Socialist Party of Sweden; Swedish section of the Commite for a Workers International. The author is not a member of this organisation. The views expressed inthis blog are not necessarily those of CWI or the Justice Socialist Party of Sweden and vice-versa.

The ''Swedish Anarchist" Mileux in Sweden is a Fraud !

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''SWEDISH ANARCHISM'' IS ANTI-ANARCHISM !

1. ''Swedish Anarchism'', as it exists in modern Scandinavia, is a secular anti-anarchist religion. As a revisionist negation of anarchist principle; it posits a set of abstract ideas, rethoric and cannonic platitudes pretending ''libertarian socialism'' without relating them to the concrete everyday reality of working class people, the unemployed, or other marginalised social groups surviving under the ''social democratic'' LIE. The tragedy of the Scandianvian ''far left'' (sic.) is its propensity for symbolism, religiosity and fashion - the historical trademark of POSEURS.

2. The crude and patronising promotion of the ''Joe Six Pack'' workerist stereotype by Swedish ''anarchists'' (sic.)  only reinforces the Liberal promoted idea of the worker as ''brute'' to be whipped into obedience. That "Swedish Anarchists" in their attitude towards workers adopt a ''leftist'' mirrior image of the Liberal disdain for the working class amounts to a PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ACCEPTANCE OF CORPORATE CAPITALIST PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT AS IT FUNCTIONS TO PERPETUATE THE SYSTEM OF WAGE SLAVERY. Real anarchists want freedom from work.

3. Anarchism purged of ''Swedish'' revisionism becomes LIBERTARIAN. Anarchism without ''Swedishness'' is the fight for personal autonomy and voluntary association AGAINST THE POLITICAL STATE. Anarchists define the political state as the system of law making and law enforcement symbolised by the Parliament, the Police and the ''social democratic'' Party-State bureaucracy. Anarchism is EXTRA-LEFTIST - it fights against the political state independent of any strictures and limits externally imposed by the establishment ''Red'', ''Green'' or ''Blue'' parliamentary political religions. While the Anarchist seeks to ABOLISH State Power; the Leftist and its ''Swedish Anarchist'' variable fight to TAKE State power. The ''Swedish Anarchists'' want to become the new state oligarchy. They want their Swedish Trade Union State to replace the ''social democratic'' capitalist one.

4. In the process of organising dissent and agitating for their goals; real anarchists seek to enter into clandestine voluntary associations (i.e. 'Affinity Groups') with one another. They do so to coordinate leaderless resistance that is based on un-identified networks that cannot be penetrated by police, hostile fascists or social democrat saboteurs. Anarchists do not advertise themselves, rather they operate from clandestinity. The ''models'' for contemporary anarchists should be the 'Zamisdat' network in the U.S.S.R circa 1977-1983 during its ''post-constitutionalist'' period. Prior to its hijacking by CIA funded Russian Nationalist elements.

5. The putative ''Swedish Anarchist'' mileu in Sweden is actually a TOY UNION INITIATIVE. It has no mass following and no recognition among people who work or among the unemployed or those that the ''social democratic'' LIE keeps in a state of social marginalisation. Swedish Anarchism is a SECT. Its members are for the most part former ''social democrats'' (sic.) who joined "Swedish Anarchism" as a protest in the late 1990's responding to the official ''social democrat'' (sic.) Party-State turn towards the neo-liberal and xenophobic far right. The ''Swedish Anarchist'' mileux is at bottom a SOCIAL PROTESTANT formation. Swedish Anarchism bears the same realtionship to the offical ''social democrat'' (sic.) Party-State that the Lutheran Church one bore in its day to the Roman Catholic Church. ''Swedish Anarchism'' is to the ''social democrats'' in the Sweden of 2005 what Lutheranism was to the Catholic Church in 1630.

6. ''Swedish Anarchism'' IS NOT Anarchism. As a tendency it split from the Anarchist movement in 1996. In its founding manufesto it clearly states that it is ''not anarchist''. Yet, when it suits for the purposes of fooling Libertarian youth into its sectarian clutches the ''Seedish Anarchists'' are fond of pretending to be ''anarchist''. When they sense they can milk political benefit from saying they are ''not anarchist'' then they change their tune as it suits. So which way is it ? ''Anarchist'' or ''not anarchist'' ?

7. The Authentic Anarchist movement aims to extend direct democracy into the economic and the social spheres by abolishing the political state. The Anarchist concept of democracy is not political representative or limited in an economic reductionist manner to ''workplaces''. The anarchist concept of democracy is POST-POLITICAL, stateless and participatory. Anarchists want to replace the political nation-state and the system of private power it protects with social-economic organisation based on the voluntary association of cooperative groups. The ideal is the emergence of clandestine, un-identified popular movement (as in Rumania 1989 or Argentina 2001) that shatters the legitimacy of State power. The political State collapses after civic resistance overwhelms the police and state security forces. 

THIS remains the vision of Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldmann and Enricco Malattesta. Insofar as ''Swedish Anarchism'' is a revisionist economic reductionist deviation from real anarchism it is a defacto NEGATION of Anarchist anti-politics.

Manuel X (Mendoza) 

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''... the democratic Republic is no more than a camouflaged form of bourgeois dictatorship. At the height of capitalism, when this represented a progressive factor, the bourgeoisie could allow itself the luxury of conceding a series of "democratic" liberties – considerably limited and full of conditions, because of its economical and political domination – to the working classes. Today in the imperialist era, "the final stage of capitalism", the bourgeoisie, in order to overcome its internal contradictions, is forced to resort to the establishment of regimes of brutal dictatorship (fascism) which destroy even the paltry democratic liberties.''

- Andres Nin. (1937)

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The ''Social Democratic'' Police State in Sweden

The ''Social'' MAN is still THE MAN

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''... the democratic Republic is no more than a camouflaged form of bourgeois dictatorship. At the height of capitalism, when this represented a progressive factor, the bourgeoisie could allow itself the luxury of conceding a series of “democratic” liberties – considerably limited and full of conditions, because of its economical and political domination – to the working classes. Today in the imperialist era, “the final stage of capitalism”, the bourgeoisie, in order to overcome its internal contradictions, is forced to resort to the establishment of regimes of brutal dictatorship (fascism) which destroy even the paltry democratic liberties.''  - Andres Nin. (1937)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/nin/1937/06/polsit.htm

Not that Sweden is a democratic republic de-jure; although it acts like one (when it suits it) de facto.

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I reference to the May 20, 2005 article about the ACLU lawsuit against the FBI ...

(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/aclu-m20.shtml)

Kate Randall writes:

''...that the FBI and local police departments have engaged in intimidation tactics against human rights, civil liberties, antiwar and other advocacy groups based on political association...''

I would like to add that the dragnet extends beyond the U.S. border into Western Europe and that police forces here in Sweden are collaborating with U.S. police in the persecution of known anti-war activists, Arab immigrants and asylum seekers who are deemed to be ''anti-american''.

The tactic of the FBI is to manufacture phoney criminal charges and then obtain warrants from US judges that are forwarded via the U.S. Marshalls service (which handles extradition requests) to the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm. The Embassy then requests that the Swedish Justice Ministry order the police to place into custody the persons targeted. This is all related to 'Operation Falcon'. You reported about this a month ago.

(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/arr-a16.shtml)

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The Swedish Justice Ministry takes the warrants for granted. It simply carries out the arrests and turns the persons in question into U.S. custody. Persons targeted have no right to due process. The extradition hearings are a joke. The Swedish judges simply do as they are told.

This is happening now in Sweden as the society is still ''digesting'' Swedish secret service participation in the illegal ''rendition'' of two Arab asylum seekers who were detained by the CIA on Swedish territory. The two persons in question where simply kidnapped from the streets and flown to Syria and Egypt on the ''torture jet''. The ghost lear jet that the CIA is using to remove the targeted from Europe. It was allegedly photographed taking off from Arlanda airport in Stockholm by an independent journalist but airport security confiscated his camera and Swedish police had him arrested for ''criminal tresspassing''. The boy is in jail. The Swedish Justice Minister (a ''socialist'') recently said on TV that he agrees with ''rendition'' and that his policy is to collaborate with U.S. ''anti-terrorist'' efforts.

I know of one of those who has been targeted. He told police that it was not possible that he had ''warrants'' in the U.S. because he had never been there. Furthermore, Swedish police admit that they do not even have fingerprint or other evidence proving that the ''warrants'' in question apply to him. Still they want him to ''turn himself in'' for ''questioning''. He refused. He had to leave his home to remain safe. As far as he knows he is ''wanted''. The authorities ''suspended'' his residence permit (he is a foreigner).

Two years ago he succesfuly sued the Swedish police for brutality and ''won'' an official apology.

He was quite active with the anti-war movement in the city where he lived. The irony is that he was forced to leave his country of origin because he had been targeted by police there for his involvement in dissident activities while a student at a university there.

He feels he ended up crawling out of one repressive shit-hole to land in another.

We are witnessing the globalisation of the police state.

VOTE SOCIALIST IN 2004

[Election 2004: International Communist VOTE SOCIALIST Appeal to the Radical Socialist Community existing behind the USA Patriot Curtain. It was posted on left newsgroups on Yahoo! and on Indymedia San Francisco. It rejected voting for Kerry on anti-capitalist and anti-war grounds.]

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GO DOWN FIGHTING !

Radical Socialists DO NOT capitulate to opportunist pressures. Radical Socialists do not vote for liberal capitalist politicians and parties that openly boast their rejection of socialist values. Radical Socialists vote for Radical Socialists. For Radical Socialists capitalist elections are simply an opportunity to propagandise against the capitalist political-economy and agitate for revolutionary social and economic transformation.

THE GOAL of Radical Socialists is to extend democracy beyond the political into the social and economic sphere. Radical Socialists know perfectly well that even if they where to ''win'' the popular vote thay would not be allowed to take office in a capitalist state. Radical Socialists know that a vote for liberal capitalists -like John Kerry- will do NOTHING to bring about Radical Socialism - a victory for the neo-liberals only means that the capitalist system of plunder, imperialism, racism and exploitation gets a ''democrat''make over. Lipstick on a pigs face. 

THERE IS NO SOCIALIST CASE FOR KERRY.

Kerry is a political free-loader and an opportunist. His own supporters admit that he is a liar. Kerry defends the occupation of Iraq. He voted for the war. Kerry defends the blocade against Cuba. Kerry defends the anti- Palestinian policies of the Israeli State.

Beyond that; Kerry opposes gay marriage, he opposes increasing the minimum wage to a living wage. Kerry and his supporters believe that they are ''entitled'' to take working class people, ethnic minorities, and the left for granted. They believe that your vote ''belongs'' to them. They believe that YOU belong to them. Your vote does not and YOU DO NOT. Your vote belongs to your values. It belongs to the best interests of the working class and all who suffer oppression under global capitalism and imperialism.

A vote for Kerry is NOT in the best interest of the U.S working class. A Kerry victory would make the United States even more dangerous than it is now. A Kerry victory will make it palatable for the plutocracies of Western Europe to ''join in'' in the plunder of Iraq and central Asia. 

Send the ''democrats'' a message that you are not fooled.

VOTE SOCIALIST. 

VOTE NADER. 

A socialist program for jobs, education, health care ...

Stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan! Withdraw all US troops now! ...

- i.c.