[PeDAGoG] The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social transformation

[David Barkin]

Dear Mofwoofoo (and other comrades who wish to follow this line)-- The
article you read is not about a utopian or anarchist autarkic solution...
It is based on the real experiences of some millions of people in Mexico
and elsewhere in Latin America -- it is NOT extolling the praises of single
community efforts -- and although we use the expression "Communitarian
Revolutionary Subject" we are not referring to individuals or single
communities, as I tried to make clear in the accompanying note. Rather the
community organizations that are constructing these new societies have a
long and proud history of resistance and then re-existence (to use an
expression of Walter Porto-Goncalves), creating their distinct but
complementary worlds that are effectively challenging the "powers that be."
These are not modeled on the "transition towns" of the UK or the
small-scale cooperatives that struggle to survive world-wide. They are
functioning complex communities that offer their members new horizons and
are deliberately but carefully challenging the institutionalized powers
that would like to destroy them.

David Barkin
Mexico

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:16 PM Mofwoofoo <mofwoofoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am writing as a long time radical anarchist activist "on the ground". I
> am not a scholar, but I have read a lot over 55 years. While I view the
> article (The communitarian revolutionary subject, new forms of social
> transformation) worthwhile, it is nothing new at all. Anarchist literature
> and scholarship goes back to the 1860's when these same ideas were
> expressed. Anarchists have seen through the problem of hierarchies in
> gov't. and in general. I have submitted the 7 minute animation that I made
> in 2020 which explains a lot about organizing in a horizontal fashion:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8&t=5s. And how it might be the
> only way to eliminate once and for all corruption in governments.
>
> Citizen participation a la transition towns initiatives, localization,
> collectivism, decentralization, deconsummerism, self-reliance, economies
> that promote the good of the whole, cooperation, respect for the
> environment, etc. are ideas whirling around throughout the internet and the
> world. And as I am sure it is clear to everyone in this group, that the
> current system of capitalism is the perfect recipe for suiciding the human
> race.
>
> Meanwhile, as capitalism is collapsing or is being collapsed, there seems
> to be a rush to assert authoritarianism as soon as possible. And clearly
> the vaccine mandate and the pcr tests are ways to do this. But since the
> vaccine mandates will not go away no matter how hard the pushback is, they
> seem to have plan b ready to go: world-wide food shortages which would
> result in world-wide food riots and chaos, which will justify martial law
> and state of emergency declarations, which at least in the USA would
> empower FEMA to overstep the Constitution and do whatever they want due to
> the executive orders that give them total power.
>
> To avoid this from happening, people need to check on where their area's
> food sources are coming from and if they will be available or not. And in
> this way, using google or duck, duck, go one can ascertain what really is
> happening and what is going to happen in these regards. And if food
> shortages are indeed imminent, alert the citizenry to prepare by storing up
> on rice, beans, lentils, grains, tins, and storing food in preserves and
> salt for perhaps 6 months and setting up programs for those who don't have
> a few hundred dollars to spend to be able to be prepared as well.
>
> Finally, I am the founder of a mostly latino, artist, eco-community in
> Ecuador (chambalabamba.org, under construction) since 2012, and believe
> me, this is not the solution for the world. It takes years to get it going,
> most communities fail for lack of funds or cohesion, it is not for
> everybody, and it is a false hope for those who believe that this is the
> way, imho.
>


-- 
David Barkin
Mexico
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