Exhaustion and Senile Utopia of the Coming European Insurrection

"Following the Greek crisis, the monetarist dogma has been strongly reinforced, as if more poison could act as an antidote.

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In Paris, London, Barcelona, Rome, and Athens, massive demonstrations have erupted to protest the restrictive measures, but this movement is not going to stop the catastrophic aggression against social life, because the European Union is not a democracy, but a financial dictatorship whose politics are the result of unquestioned decision-making processes.

Peaceful demonstrations will not suffice to change the course of things and violent explosions will be too easily exploited by racists and criminals. A deep change in social perception and social lifestyle will compel a growing part of society to withdraw from the economic field, from the game of work and consumption. These people will abandon individual consumption to create new, enhanced forms of co-habitation, a village economy within the metropolis."

Franco Berardi Bifo

retirado de http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/191