Speaking Congress of the NPA is probably not a compulsory exercise, but reverse the impression I got from his two years of existence has also balance sheet value of step, and from this point of view, nobody wants to hide behind his little finger: if the failure does not depend on the nose - we have not yet ...-, anyway indeed failed ; launch of that party is an undeniable reality.
And when I say "we", it is obvious that this is a collective process and I'm not going to be designated as such or by loading them from all evils and looking for convenient scapegoats which obliterates the responsibility of everyone in this case: if the outcome is bad, it goes our responsibility to all.
launched too quickly in too much enthusiasm, leaving aside the strategic and programmatic issues to the tune of "we'll see later" postponed indefinitely, have nothing asked the name question: "New" Anti-Capitalist Party will happen if it again in 10 years? But pressed by the euphoria, this issue is also in the past "we will see later," and although it was undoubtedly very secondary, it seems no less as symptomatic of an organization that began immediately head to the grindstone activist and only began to start thinking about what she really wanted ... but two years later. And yet the question of "how" you get what you want to it still gives rise to fierce debates and Byzantine that have not done little to remove the "new", tired of endless discussions and quarrels commas.
Tired and exhausted as the rhythms activists directly inherited from the LCR, in which small organic overactive involvement activist was to say the least especially high, we did try to say at the outset that each has different rhythms activists, we will not ask the same level of commitment at all: the reality was that the most militant, spending all their leisure absolutely outside of paid work, set the tempo from the outset and it was essentially "d 'old' League regulars to this long frenzy of meetings, debates and poster collage ... For
neophyte someone seduced by our ideas and willing to engage, but also taken by other activities or even a job more demanding schedules and not having her evenings and weekends, or simply can not keep up very high in what was asked, it became very difficult. And discouraging ... especially since this person saw overnight literally saturated his mailbox several messages per day mobilizations underway on, publications, internal forums, debates to decide the direction of a particular platform, appointments militants Extending the analysis - the lefty has a little trouble ...-, synthesize a continuous stream of data to swallow as many exhortations to a permanent mobilization of the body and mind, offering only two alternatives: either one becomes thoroughly ; either one is dropped ...
Very few people have the same capacity or if the desire to be thoroughly all the time 24/7/365.
And they were asked to enter this fury without ever really defining identity anticapitalist, without having time to sit down and reflect collectively on a definition of both intellectual and concrete of our work: I do not know what it is elsewhere, but in two years, training has been virtually nonexistent. Head to the grindstone. All the time. Towards what? Why? How? "We learn by walking," it was said casually: in fact we walked a lot, even trudge, but we learned very little ...
Including our own mistakes.
From this point of view, we must recognize at least this: it has consistently drawn all the balls imaginable not only in both feet but everywhere. At least we do not do things by halves. Both the League had always distinguished by his fine analysis of political situations, both the NPA has accumulated all the blunders and mistakes others ran frantically after all things at once, without setting a course, without asking the things to build a collective strategy. And this without counting ferocious tackles fantastical constructions on reality restive: last year, it was only a question of "neighborhoods" and the obvious need to build proletarian at all costs ... something. We did not know quite what, but also: something. We talk anymore now. As for the veil ... I have too much already said what it inspired me. But facts are stubborn and the lesson is no less there: replace the strategy by slogans, rely solely on the energy of enthusiasm without giving effect to this headlong activist, never take the time to ask for "think" the NPA - both are urgent tasks here, now, immediately - and at least try to give a less vague definition of the famous "Socialism of the XXI Century" and what it means to time of the information society and socio-political recomposition underway in short, continue to operate in small Trotskyist organizations while claiming to the mass party was a challenge that we have carefully avoided, and now is back in the head.
Basically, the NPA has been designed to "exceed" the LCR and finally give the opportunity to play in the big leagues. Except that want to play in this court by systematically refusing to apply at least some rules and by claiming that only plays by our own very soon showed its limits ...
Having for years and years of completely integrated ways of thinking and operating "minority" was not known at all how to react when a question arose as simple but crucial: the relationship to power. The real political power, in the broadest sense of the word flat, something we have only fragmentary experience and we are essentially completely unknown.
And we are afraid of power is as simple as that. Fear of being devoured by this power, recovered, rogue, regurgitated like so many before us. Rationalizations can do nothing, we can reconstruct reality as we want, is that habits "minority" are stubborn. But disguise his fear of power poses Revolutionists does that without support of voters, we get nothing. Without elected, we are not in the French political system. Without effort of simplification and clarification of ideas that door, you are misunderstood. In short: without compromise, we piss in the violins of the radical but it does feels good to yourself.
It will be very difficult to try to explain to "people" we have our eyes fixed on the Mediterranean and we will happily wait until it happens here. Because if it all comes back to repeat the same crap on the refrain of "we will build the organization by getting involved in fights and making the teaching, "what good is the NPA in this case and more importantly, why are we doing in regimens that do not work and only work more if indeed they have worked one day?
Balance partial and biased, subjective and necessarily with the limitations that relate to the exercise. Probably.
But one certainty remains.
The "whew" of relief prompted by all the dachshunds of the bourgeois press to the "failure of the NPA" gives us an indication paradoxical yet clear that at least on one point, we are right: because people are afraid. Not afraid of us as activists NPA, but that is afraid of ideas and they know they mean extinction for them and what they represent. And their greatest fear is that those ideas, not those with whom one can discuss or arrange, spread in the population and are approved by a growing number ...
Even small group of state policy, even in a difficult moment, we continue to frighten them.
That at least one course we can be sure he is right: they and the people who make them their checks, they must continue their shit scared.
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