March 7: blocking the machine, waking up the human

“We have attended left-wing parades, in which you walk with friends or family, without being part of a parade, and then go home while waiting for the next walk. This left-wing culture is suicidal, because it does not create active strikers but punctual protesters. This is the political pattern of left-wing parties, which bring together groups of “citizens” and then leave them isolated in their businesses. Shouting out slogans with red flags does not change this ineffectiveness. [...]

But the “general strike” is not a leftist slogan. It requires preparation in each family and in each neighborhood. Because it is necessary to maintain the pickets and the occupations of work sites. Child care must be taken care of collectively. Collective food must be prepared. The strikers must be federated, locally as an interprofessional, and more widely at the level of the federation of industry (the branch). Sociability and festive and cultural activities must be offered. You have to organize yourself effectively.”

— An enlightened trade unionist

Although foreign to the technocratic objective^[1] Simply returning to the age of 62, we welcome the “general strike” project scheduled for Tuesday 7 March.

While the mass of the techno-industrial infrastructure today exceeds that of all living beings on Earth^[2], it is clear that we are all alienated in a set of relationships, flows and technologies that constantly suck up our intellectual availability, our capacity to revolt. From waking up in the morning to the transport taking us to work, from the computer to processing emails to the evening in front of Netflix (or worse, hanging out on Instagram and other dehumanizing platforms), all our ability to decide the meaning of our lives is destroyed by mechanical processes.
Today, the technological system is finishing organizing our total dependence on its infrastructure, to the point of setting our lives on its own rhythm, that of the factory and the clock, mechanical time, far from the natural cycles of day, night and seasons that animated us for centuries.

The uprising seems all the more necessary as it seems far away. Paradox of an era where the agony of birds, oceans, oceans, soils and forests serves to fuel the techno-flow that makes us scroll on the screen, far from the desire to end it. Because what to do, if not stop the megamachine?

In such a vacuum, are we really left with no choice but to see any attempt to stop the industrial order as an opportunity?

Do we still really have the luxury of complaining about this “delay at work”, such “connection that does not work well”, such “train that does not leave”?

Now, the scientific consensus is categorical: crazy people are those who want to continue to produce goods and energy at the cost of sacrificing the living world. At the cost of the habitability of the only planet that we use as a refuge.

Crazy people are those who advocate the total dispossession of our existence, for the benefit of industrial firms and states, through the technological colonization of our intimate sphere and the human body.

Crazy people are those who prefer to break a strike than risk the return of a natural and spontaneous human connection, free from the imperative of productivity and efficiency.

Faced with inhuman madmen, the majority of humans are condemned to a technological slavery that reveals more and more the totalitarian nature of this industrial society. Dehumanized, acclimatized to the mechanical age, industrialized peoples suffer as soon as a day of respite disrupts the mechanical progress of their empty work.

So on March 7, and as long as we can in future struggles, through the blockade and the renewable strike, let's free up the time to reflect collectively on our situation: in cities, factories, fields, fields, buildings, universities. Let's try to understand and anticipate the techno-future that they are preparing for us. Let us try, at last, to think strategy.

Because all is not lost. They have the machines, we have the people and centuries of revolutionary tradition. Let's block everything, organize ourselves, let's free ourselves.

Withdrawal of pension reform. Withdrawal of the Macron government. Withdrawal of techno-industrial infrastructure.

Blocking everything is becoming vital. Let's give humanity back its creativity.

“Instead of the conservative slogan: “A fair wage for a fair day of work”, the proletarians must write on their flag the revolutionary slogan: “Abolition of wage labor””

— Karl Marx