A Human.

Every international crisis, even when it concerns small areas (as was the mass extermination of the Yezidis in a small area of ​​Iraq) now functions as an unmasking of moral, ideological, value and ultimately fundamental political deficiencies in all constituted political and political-cultural subjects. Ostensibly independent organizations for the defense of human rights, etc., are not excluded from these negative revelations.

Opposing ideological-political groups, which are always responsible for some other "sins" of the present or the past, "strive" to fill the void that remains. But are they all "guilty"? are they all "the same"? No, by no means. But, those who are not "the same" as evil and the lack of good, no longer fit into any ideological or political institution, even if it is informal or invokes a struggle against all authority and institution.

There are people and collectives, in all forms, to be found (transiently? so whats your problem?) in the place of the betrayed, the abandoned, the forgotten by the institutions, by the ideologies and by the hard-hearted dogmatists, in all forms, because they do not meet the conditions of the political, geopolitical, ideological and other pre-determinations and pre-definitions.

It is a form of misfortune and unfair fate to remain only human. It better not happen to you. No one will help you at all, or as much as you should.

You will then say, I am only human, I am Ukrainian, I am Yezidi, only human, therefore I am unlucky, fate took me, the institutions forgot me, they equated me with the Killer, I have no hope.

But that's all that's left, only that. A Human.

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

The pacifism..

The pacifism regarding the Ukrainian issue is a disgrace, in which the far-right and most leftists or anti-capitalists are leading. For the extreme right we expected it, but the left have no excuse. In the way they behave politically they are reminiscent of earlier times in terms of the narrowness and cynical nature of their thought and action, so they remind those of us who followed them that they have not changed even now, after so many blows of history that they have received. It does not matter that there is a minority of leftists who have learned from historical experience. Most remain arrogants who think they have the issue of social and labor freedom in their pocket, as if this were some kind of salary they are entitled to because of some professional engagement with the lowly and oppressed. Unfortunately most anarchists have also developed a similar mindset. The working class, the people, the society, do not belong to any political and ideological owner.

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

Γιατί πρέπει να ηττηθεί κατά κράτος η Νέα Καπιταλιστική-Ιμπεριαλιστική Ανατολή. Why the New Capitalist-Imperialist East must be totaly defeated.

What is this element that currently makes the emerging non-Western imperialist world worse than the over-mature Western imperialist world? 

The element of primary accumulation of state and transnational power. 

The primary accumulation of state power never takes place only in a unitary national-state field. 

The primary accumulation of state power always takes place in a wider hierarchical and distinct (never truly global) field, which is not simply an empire but (especially in modern times) a wider imperialist world-dominant system that usually includes at the top of its own sovereign pyramid a multitude of separate imperial metropolises. 

This separate power pyramid is not identical with the wider power pyramid which includes both the dominant world empire (today it is still the West) but also dependent countries that are not organically included in the separate power pyramid of the world empire (there are dependent countries that organically belong to the separate world empire power pyramid). 

The emergence and formation of a cosmo-empire, that is, a supra-national cosmo-empire world-pole, contains and manifests the primary accumulation of state power that we mentioned at the beginning. 

This process is horrible, dangerous for humanity and is being carried out today by the East, without knowing if it will work. 

The process itself as a gruesome process is not enclosed in a wider historical necessity like its first manifestation, so as a repetition it is expected under special conditions (if the left fails) but it is no longer either historically or politically necessary.

 

Ποιο είναι αυτό το στοιχείο που κάνει αυτή την στιγμή τον αναδυόμενο μη δυτικό ιμπεριαλιστικό κόσμο χειρότερο από τον υπερώριμο δυτικό ιμπεριαλιστικό κόσμο; 

Το στοιχείο τής πρωταρχικής συσσώρευσης κρατικής και διακρατικής ισχύος. 

Η πρωταρχική συσσώρευση κρατικής ισχύος δεν συντελείται ποτέ μόνον σε ένα μοναδιαίο εθνικοκρατικό πεδίο. 

Η πρωταρχική συσσώρευση κρατικής ισχύος συντελείται πάντα σε ένα ευρύτερο ιεραρχικό και ξεχωριστό (ποτέ πραγματικά παγκόσμιο) πεδίο, το οποίο αποτελεί όχι απλά μιαν αυτοκρατορία αλλά (ειδικά στην νεώτερη εποχή) έναν ευρύτερο ιμπεριαλιστικό κοσμοκρατορικό σύστημα παγκόσμιας κυριαρχίας που συνήθως περιλαμβάνει στην κορυφή τής δικής του κυριαρχικής πυραμίδας ένα πλήθος ξεχωριστών αυτοκρατορικών μητροπόλεων. 

Αυτή η ξεχωριστή εξουσιαστική πυραμίδα δεν ταυτίζεται με την ευρύτερη εξουσιαστική πυραμίδα που περιλαμβάνει και την κυρίαρχη κοσμοκρατορία (σήμερα είναι ακόμα η Δύση) αλλά και εξαρτημένες χώρες που δεν είναι ενταγμένες οργανικά στην ξεχωριστή εξουσιαστική πυραμίδα τής κοσμοκρατορίας (υπάρχουν εξαρτημένες χώρες που ανήκουν οργανικά στην ξεχωριστή κοσμοκρατορική εξουσιαστική πυραμίδα). 

Η ανάδυση και η συγκρότηση μιας κοσμοκρατορίας, δηλαδή ενός υπερεθνικού κοσμοκρατορικού κόσμου-πόλου περιέχει και εκδηλώνει την πρωταρχική συσσώρευση κρατικής ισχύος που αναφέραμε στην αρχή. 

Αυτή η διεργασία είναι φρικτή, επικίνδυνη για την ανθρωπότητα και σήμερα επιτελείται από την αναδυόμενη ανατολή, χωρίς να ξέρουμε αν θα τελεσφορήσει. 

Η ίδια η διεργασία ως φρικαλέα διεργασία δεν περικλείεται σε μιαν ευρύτερη ιστορική αναγκαιότητα όπως η πρώτη της εκδήλωση, άρα ως επανάληψη είναι μεν αναμενόμενη υπό ειδικές συνθήκες (εφόσον αποτυγχάνει η αριστερά) αλλά δεν είναι πλέον ούτε ιστορικά ούτε πολιτικά αναγκαία.

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

Dear comrades / A repetition that is not necessary.

Dear comrades, if you consider me a comrade of course (this question is being played).

We have become entangled in neo-Hegelian post-Hegelian religio-theological entanglements, in the precincts of a non-existent court of History, without even knowing and admitting this fact, and we must now re-remember basic principles of real non-theology and non-belief, to face the real world but also our problem as a problem of disguised superstition.

Is it a bit late?

Or will Nietzsche's controversial contributions, also of the psychoanalysis, art and post-art help us untangle this tangle?

I think that especially these last "reinforcements" probably made things worse: A zealouses secularized religion, the latest radicalism, when it uses and instrumentalizes "dissolving" "destructive" elements, manages to confuse itself worse, succeeds in ceasing to have the simple-simplistic features of religion, remaining however religion, altering even these "dissolving-destructive" elements.

 

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A repetition that is not necessary.

The emergence of the Western (imperialist-capitalist) world contained all the horrors that accompany such emergences from an older exploitative-dominant world into a newer one.

There is no necessity for all mankind to pass -in one part of it, the same horrible road.

If the rise of the West contained a historical necessity and in terms of the gruesome forms it would necessarily contain, this historical (and non-moral) necessity no longer exists.

There is no "right" to repeat a horrible necessity, nor must our world first become multi-polar by overcoming the mono-polarity of the West before it becomes non-polar non-dominant.

There is no general "right" to the repetition of all forms of primary capitalist and imperialist accumulation, or of some primary accumulation of Dominion, because "once upon a time all these first-existed in the West," just as there is no "right" to the repetition of a rape even against a former rapist (at the level of the primary accumulations mentioned above).

The left that recognizes these "rights" on the basis of an ideology or an indirect "understanding" of the would-be new Sovereigns, rushers, proto-imperialists, who "also, want to...", is a deranged left that instead of asking to gain time with a non-repetition, it asks for "understanding" of the desire of some formerly oppressed or "oppressed" to rape working classes, nations, entire peoples.

Well, yes, we don't want a multi-polarity instead of the western mono-polarism, so that we lose another 2-3 centuries, we ask for socialism now, everywhere, workers' self-management, abolition of the system of wage labor, now, crushing of the patriarchy, now, or if it can't be done "now" we want to not go back 2 centuries for the "new sovereign nations" to do their term in mass death and expansions in territories etc.

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

 

 

It is not a short path

Our ultimate goal is that ethnic, national, sexual differences diminish or even disappear, but the path to this strategic socio-cultural goal is not a short path, it is not a path strewn with flowery imaginary abstractions, it is not a path predetermined and secured in advance through economic-productive or other linguistic-mental performative "structures".

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 . Thread from a queer feminist Ukrainian - her fury at the western left's condescending, "careless, hurtful bullshit" on Ukraine.

 

Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦

Thread from a queer feminist Ukrainian - her fury at the western left's condescending, "careless, hurtful bullshit" on Ukraine.

"Back when I was a sociology student at Kyiv-Mohyla, I was stupidly, shamelessly enamoured with the collective western Left. I dreamed of a day when Ukrainian academia would have widespread and popular discussions about colonialism, privilege, and all of the -isms. 

I read essays by prominent English-speaking activists and thought “oh, if only these brilliant people were to learn about Ukraine and its complicated past, about the discrimination we have faced throughout the centuries, about the genocides and revolutions. They would understand us. 

They would probably share valuable experience or help us somehow lay down the theoretical groundwork that would explain all of the traumatic events we’ve witnessed and lived though.” I was… dazzlingly naive. 

And now, when my country is under attack from a literal kleptofascist empire that openly declares it’s going to commit ethnic cleansing, when our children and women die in agony, and when our academics and queer activists, nihilists and journalists, writers and liberals, doctors, teachers, feminists and conservatives, Muslims and Jews, atheists and clergymen are desperately fighting against a better-armed, bloodthirsty enemy intent on levelling our cities with the ground, burning our fields, raping us, killing us, blowing up our hospitals and destroying our monuments, I look at the abstract western Left (or, at least, its most vocal part) and I see nothing but scorn in their eyes. 

Scorn, condescending, privileged carelessness. 

They preach equality and resistance to oppression and yet accuse people like myself (feminist queer women who’ve spent their lives striving for equal rights) of being Nazis because we don’t want to kneel over and die in silence. 

They talk about the importance of representation and yet shut us up whenever we try and tell them about our experiences. 

They write books about us without turning to a single Ukrainian expert for guidance or information. 

They accuse others of being privileged and lacking empathy, and yet can’t seem to grasp the concept that not being in an active war zone and not worrying about your loved ones dying at any given moment is, in fact, privilege. 

They claim that we do not deserve sympathy because we aren’t doinge nough for LGBTQ rights in this country — and then proceed to ignore the LGBTQ soldiers risking their lives on the frontlines. 

They spout careless, hurtful bullshit, quoting their out-of-touch idols who preach absolute pacifism only because it’s not their lives at stake.."

I know not all western leftists are like this. 

Obviously not. I know many of them do sympathise with our plight, and I’m thankful for their support. But the ones who treat this invasion as an excuse to build long-winded theories about how NATO is some ever present universal evil, or treat all of this as some sort of twisted ethics exercise, a trolly problem in which Ukrainians are the sacrificial savages who need to die quietly before real people start suffering from high gas prices or nuclear war… I’ll never forget those."

Have I told you what I think of this type of teacher?

 

Kurds: They are being exterminated because they do not have what is exterminating them. 

What do they not have? 

What they don't have is the "nation-state". 

This paradox/conundrum does not lend itself to intellectual-ideological exercises if you are Kurdish. 

If you are not a Kurd, you can play the role to be a right-liberal or Marxist/anarchist internationalist Kurd's teacher.
Have I told you what I think of this type of teacher?

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

Ιράν-Ιράκ-Συρία-Κουρδιστάν

 

The leader of the largest Iraqi Shiite sect (in Iraq the Shiites are Arabs and are the majority), but anti-Iranian, Sadr, expresses the spirit of Iraqi national independence, against both Iran and the West. Although the ruling establishment is moderate towards the West and the USA (it cooperates with them, accepting the presence of American forces that are not there only "symbolically"), it is at the same time slavishly submissive towards Iran.

Now see a mess:

Sadr is the most open towards the Kurds, both those of Barzani and those of the PKK. 

Shiites of establishment following Tehran's orders are pressuring the PKK Kurds via tolerating the invading Turks who are now waging an open war against the PKK in northern Iraq, in the Qandil mountain range where its hard-line leadership and military core is based.

At the same time, next door, in Syria, the forces of the Alawite-Shia as well as the Baathist regime of Assad, come to an agreement and cooperation with the Syrian PKK to face the Turkish invasion threat. Both Moscow and Tehran object to the Turkish invasion, and will probably come into direct confrontation with their ally, Turkey, so they have given approval to Assad to ally with the PKK. 

Of course, the attitude of Russia and Iran is influenced by the anti-Turkish position, over time, of the regime of the Assad family*. Neither Iran nor Russia want Turkey to expand further in northern Syria, but they also have to consider the position of the Assad regime.

Tell me now:

In the field, in practice, who can solve this tangle?

The "anti-capitalist" movement? Don't make me laugh.

Those who see things from a distance, usually from the Western screen, whether they are anti-capitalist or not, do not say anything concrete.

 

* Εxcept for a short time, where there was a restoration of their relations.

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

Life is hard for fools.

The Syrian PKK with the approval of the PKK leadership troika is preparing to face the Turkish vampires, in cynical alliance with the forces of Assad (the official Baathist state).
I support the PKK, I support its necessary cynical alliances with whoever, because Turkey must be crushed, and I will not listen to the whining and moralizing of those who relied on the Turkish vampires to fight the Baathists.
Life is hard for fools.

 

The Iran-Turkey-Russia triangle lit fires in Iraq, again. But this triangle will break, and then some will wonder, again, why it is not the satanic west and the diabolical Israel that will be to blame, again.

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

A parenthesis.

 

A parenthesis.

When you say you'll make it to the end, make it, otherwise don't say it.

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Declaration.

When I, the "petty bourgeois nationalist"* will declare that I will go to the end I will go to the end.

 

* I apologize to myself for using the terminology of my totalitarian enemies.

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The ethics of modern radicals is unfortunately overwhelmed by all forms of apotheosis of the concept/situational of ''inclination''.
Right-wing radicals deify national/religious inclination and leftist/anarchist radicals deify the class inclination, in a contest of moralistic immorality and propaganda orgasm.

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Don't just blame the Islamists for their adherence to the imposition of the headscarf (Hijab), you moralists of neo-communism and old faces of Stalinism-Trotskyism-anarchism, but look deep inside how many headscarves and how many burqas you have worn οn your deeply puritanical mind.

You have perverted the use of language with your metaphorical excesses, your extreme use of extensions of literal meanings through arbitrary metaphorical modifications of them.

You see everything as "capitalist spectacle", as "pornography", as "colonization".

Come to your senses imagined and worn-out pseudo-representatives of the proletariat.

Wake up from your moralist slumber, and try to think like everyday people.

 

 The neo-ethicists of the section of the new left who revive the ''anti-spectacular'' deep puritanism of the Stalinist (and not only, unfortunately) Puritan virgins make me either laugh endlessly or vomit.

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The leaders of the modern humiliated subordinate social classes will not "come" from the arrogance of Agamemnon, nor from the anger of Achilles, they will not be spiteful and pseudosubversive like the Thersites of the masses, they will not be a synthesis of all these like Caesar.
If there are leaders, by no means is it certain, they will be leaders who will not want to be leaders, but they will not have also the syndrome "I don't want to be a leader, but I want to be a leader, because I hate my father complexly, being a would-be father myself."
They will come from the bottom of the commonplace, the everyday, they will simply do their duty to stand up when everything will call them to bow down and submit.

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Ιωάννης Τζανάκος