The following is a partial translation of the “Prologue” and a complete translation of “Chapter 1” of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013). We have translated and posted work by Taibo before, but this is our most extensive effort. And we hope that it is but the first in a series of what will be the complete translation of the book. In this way we hope to share with English readers the work of one of the most significant anarchist voices today in spain.
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An anniversary of lives in movement: Spain’s 15M
The upcoming 15th of May marks a commemoration, not of anniversary of a past reality, but of a present, in movement. Spain’s 15M, over three years, has multiplied, proliferated, metamorphosised; to become not larger in numbers, but in deeper in intensity and stronger in its resonance. Its continuity is due not to any centralising organisation, or unifying ideology, as common opinion would dictate as necessary, but to emerging forms of life that increasingly push up against the limits of capitalism. Movements, rather than a movement, in constant re-composition; responding, searching, creating against/with current realities, moulding and sustaining new ways of being. Simultaneously destituent and constituent, the plurality of agencies that are 15M’s composite singularities, have become, however modestly, makers of worlds. More than characterising an atmosphere, as has been said of it, it is a collective corporeality of affective-cognitive relations of resistance that continue to reconfigure the horizons of possibility.
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