Organize hope

The dystopia is here. We have seen how he was recovering beyond the margins of fiction, progressively colonizing essay books, informative programs and daily conversations. The novels, series or films of the genre were requiring less metaphors and each time they caused us a greater restlessness, because they have become more and more plausible. Reality is reaching Black Mirror, The Handmaid’s Tale and also a Years & Years.

Much of anticipation fiction, including the dystopian here, contains a critical analysis of society that is contemporary and wants, in a way, to be an admonition. However, due to the effect of accumulation and repetition, it can occur – as with the bad news and terrible – an effect through which we travel from stupor or scandal to numbing or discouragement, which leads, to turn, to paralysis and demobilization.

The reactionary wave that rises throughout the world is no longer a threat in the distance. The ultra -rightist summit held recently in Madrid, in a climate of euphoria, illustrates its evolution and change of scale.

The conservative revolution initiated in the mid -seventies of the last century and their neoliberal epigons have been happening increasingly shameless and without complex versions, which have made a flag of the contempt.

They have emerged all kinds of politically channeled drives in favor of really existing powers, although to be fully functional to this objective, they like to represent themselves in another way: identity replicues, national-populist or nativist movements, new extreme rights in all in all its gradations and varieties or a new plutocracy that has decided to dispense with its traditional intermediaries and seeks the direct exercise of all the power, everywhere and at all times. From the algorithm of the networks and the control of our data to the control of the raw materials, through the hostile OPA to all democratic formality.

All this, feeding fears to generate such a flow that allows them to lay the foundations of an omnimous power. Turning the lack of empathy or cruelty in a way of offering the fearful the comfort of being directed by the mythical Strong mansomeone to emulate in their arrogance and inclement, and also with the intention of discreting any discrepancy through rhetorical violence amplified by the networks, which gradually filters the physical world with the growing aggressiveness of the New and old right.

Faced with this reality, it is humanly understandable that we attend with some disbelief to the success of such speeches and policies, that we are laid, that we scandalize or that we indigena after knowing every new daring of the milkombres on duty that capital puts in front of these projects in which he has invested so much. But it will not be enough for us.

It will not even be enough for us – for the umpteenth occasion – the errors and divisions of the left, as a whole or individually considered, however necessary it is. Either studying again How democracies diealthough this is also essential. Dilucidate all this, or at least establish an analysis of the basically shared situation, is fundamental, but we cannot afford to wait to have it completed.

It is time for the left, that we spent a lot Everything that, even if it is judged insufficient, has cost so much effort.

Assuming that the correlation of forces is not favorable to us and that there is a huge disproportion in the resources that one and the other can mobilize for the constant struggle in which we are immersed, it is necessary to regroup and offer resistance to the formidable thrust with which the common adversary He is pressing on all fronts.

That said does not constitute, however, an appeal to act under the epic of resistance, but to stop the blow at a time of maximum weakness of our ranks, to immediately pass the offensive. You have to immediately put the efforts to reinforce them. Participate more uninhibited, intense and coordinated in the dispute for the establishment of the common sense of here and now, above and beyond the lawful disagreements between each of the traditions or views of the left.

Neighborhood and sector must be organized to Barrio and Sector, but it is also necessary coordination, method and organization at European and international scale. Military side by side in certain areas, although in others we disagree. That success and successful formulas will find us in full militant task, or will not find us.

I can only offer some intuitions about what I think could constitute the basis of a certain unit of action, although it is undoubtedly a partial and thick stroke. In the first place, that it is necessary regressive utopias.

That an open, complex, inclusive, diverse and plural society is not only a problem or a threat, but is as inexorable as it is convenient, and it is the way to keep alive and projected to the future the future us which forms the basis of every political community. That climate change must be combated and its effects with total determination and social justice criteria. That if feminism is in the spotlight of hate discourse and want to break the spine, it is because of its enormous transformative and emancipatory potential. That the best guarantee of the democratic character of our societies will be obtained by deepening the social nature of the states in which we live. In short, we must organize hope and provide it with a political horizon.