Con Tsipras contra el absolutismo financiero

Franco Berardi Bifo — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:14:26 +0000

Alexis Tsipras representa la resistencia de la sociedad griega contra la agresión financiera, y para mí este es suficiente motivo para apoyar públicamente y votar su candidatura a las elecciones europeas. ¿Cuál es el objetivo de esta candidatura? Si en las elecciones solamente conseguimos un pronunciamiento de la minoría senil y tardo-gauchista (de la cual formo parte) a favor del único joven europeo que no es moralmente corrupto ni intelectualmente conformista, no será un gran resultado.

Es por eso que asumiendo el empeño en construir las condiciones culturales y políticas para una afirmación de esta candidatura, debemos pensar sobre los escenarios que puede abrir una campaña a favor de Tsipras, a la hora de una recomposición cultural y social.

No tengo ninguna confianza en la democracia representativa. Es evidente la corrupción de las instituciones democráticas ante el capital financiero. Por otra parte, la Unión Europea es constitutivamente una autocracia financiera, desde el momento en que las decisiones del Banco Central Europeo se toman al margen del Parlamento. Entonces, ¿por qué movilizarse, por qué votar?

La sociedad europea está deprimida, desintegrada, irascible. La campaña a favor de Tsipras debe abrir la posibilidad de un proceso unitario de solidaridad y de revuelta, de insolvencia y de independencia de la vida cotidiana de la dictadura financiera o no servirá de nada.

With Tsipras, against financial absolutism

Franco Berardi Bifo — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:34:21 +0000

Alexis Tsipras represents the resistance of Greek society against the financial aggression, and for me this would be enough to declare my support to the political list which will have him as their candidate for the next European elections, and to vote for him.

But what are the aims of Tsipras' list? If the outcome of these elections will be merely the expression of an elderly and late-lefty minority (to which I belong) in support of the only young and not yet morally corrupt European politician, it won’t be a great result. Thus, as we take upon ourselves the task of creating the conditions for a success of Tsipras' list, we have to think both about the new horizons which could be opened by a campaign in favour of Tsipras, and about the effects of cultural and social recomposition to which we can aspire.

I don’t have any faith in representative democracy. The void left within democratic institutions by the automatisms of financial capital is now a matter of fact and of common sense. And the European Union is fundamentally a financial autocracy, since the decisions of the European Central Bank are removed from the sphere of influence of the Parliament.

European society is depressed, fragmented, rabidly aggressive. The process of disintegration of the European Union is now too advanced to be arrested. The identitarian egoisms which have been aroused by financial violence are destined to produce their devastating effects. We should have no illusions.

So, what is the point of getting involved, of voting at all?

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Con Tsipras contra el absolutismo financiero

With Tsipras, against financial absolutism