17/01/2012 -
DOES
WORK LIBERATE?
Work
penetrates and determines our whole existence. Time flows merciless
at her rhythm as we commute through identical depressive surroundings
at an ever increasing pace. Working time…productive time…free
time…Every single one of our activities falls within her context:
acquiring knowledge is considered an investment for a future career,
joy is transformed into entertainment and delves into an orgy of
consumption, our creativity is crushed within the narrow limits of
productivity, our relationships -even our erotic encounters- speak
the language of performance and usability… Our perversion has
reached such a point that we search for any form of work, even
voluntary, in order to fill our existential void, in order to “do
something”.
We
exist to work, we work to exist.
The
identification of work with human activity and creativity and the
complete domination of the doctrine of work as the natural destiny of
humans have penetrated our consciousness to such a depth that the
refusal of this enforced condition, of this social coercion, seems as
sacrilege towards the very concept of humanity.
So
any job is better than not having a job. This is the message spread
by the evangelists of the existent, sounding the kick-off for the
ever more frantic competition between the exploited for some scraps
from the bosses’ table; for the instrumentalization and complete
leveling of social relationships in exchange for some miserable job
in the galleys of survival.
It
is not, however, only the terms and conditions of work which create a
dead-end. It is work as a totality, as a process of commercialization
of human activity that reduces humans into living components of a
machine consuming images and products. It is work as a universal
condition under which relationships and consciousness are formed, as
the backbone maintaining and reproducing this society based on
hierarchy, exploitation and oppression. And as such, work must be
destroyed.
So
we don’t merely become more content slaves or better managers of
misery. So that we can re-signify the aim and essence of human
activity and creativity by acting together and driven by the search
for the joy of live through knowledge, awareness, discovery,
camaraderie, solidarity. For individual
and collective
liberation…
LET’S
LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM WORK
FREEDOM
FOR THE ANARCHIST RAMI SIRIANOS
accused
of expropriating some of the stolen wealth from the ODDY
SOLIDARITY
WITH COMRADE KLEOMENIS SAVANIDIS
prosecuted
for the same case without any evidence
Court
date: 18th of January 2012, Thessaloniki
Athens-Thessaloikni
Solidarity Collaboration
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