A-Infos (en) Mexico, FAM-IFA - Regeneración #10: Anarchy is Evolution (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It seems that life is full of contradictions, some of a natural nature and some 
others imposed by society, in this last group of contradictions we find an 
accumulation of words and ideas. I want to refer specifically to two words that 
contain in them two great ideas, ideas that, in my point of view, are key to the 
healthy development of human societies and that, by mistake or treachery, a 
campaign has been launched to make them appear contradictory and opposite in 
meaning from each other. I refer to the words Evolution and Anarchy. Which I will 
try to explain shortly. ---- According to the dictionary, evolution means a 
universal process that consists of the gradual change of living beings and other 
objects in the natural world towards constant improvement. If humanity by natural 
predisposition, like all living beings that inhabit the Earth, is an evolutionary 
being, and if Evolution is "modifying to eliminate defects seeking constant 
improvement", then the human being, being an evolutionary being, from the social 
and political point of view, advances directly towards the abolition of the 
social errors that today suffers; such as: war, envy, exploitation, etc. And at 
the same time, it creates the pillars of a harmonious social order based on: 
peace, love, equity and freedom.

Anarchy comes from the Greek language, it means: state of a people and, even more 
precisely, of a social environment without government. (Sebastian Faure). The 
word Anarchy, which should be spelled correctly An-arquia, and having the prefix 
An, which is a privative, clearly explains that it is the opposite of disorder, 
since an Anti will be made clear in its translation; that is, if our opponents 
mean disorder, they actually say Archy, and not An-archy, which would be 
anti-disorder. Once this has been explained, it will be perfectly understood 
that, while society constantly evolves towards its improvement, purging 
everything that is detrimental to healthy development and that becomes an 
evolutionary obstacle, it is getting closer to an anarchic social environment; 
that is, to a social organization based on mutual agreements, without coercion or 
violence of any kind for the organization of social life.

If evolution means a constant path towards the perfection of the social and 
living being, and of the entire environment that surrounds it and with which it 
cohabits, and if Anarchy is nothing more than a social environment of mutual and 
constant relations between living beings of the most harmonious and free form 
that could have been established, Evolution and Anarchy are two constants that 
advance, one in search of the other, in the consummation of social improvement.

We will be told that we are in error, that Anarchy means the complete opposite of 
what we have just stated, that Anarchy means chaos and disorder. It is logical 
that we think that way, our brains have been bombarded for entire generations 
with this lie, premeditated by all governments. They, aware of the etymology, 
that is, the origin and real meaning of the words, omit the true meaning of this 
word and, in the most scoundrel way possible, distort it so that the people feel 
a rejection towards the ideas that emanate from it. she. It is logical that after 
centuries of dividing human society into social classes that are simplified 
between the exploited and the exploiters, the latter resort to any pretext, even 
disguised as a scientific one, so as not to lose any of their privileges.

First Kings and priests spoke of God's designs and the need to see them 
tyrannizing the people under the threat of hell, because that was the will of the 
Almighty. Although little by little the boroughs were created that subtracted 
power from the counts and made the peasants stop being slaves, the farce of the 
divine right of the King lasted many more years, this historical period being 
known as feudalism. It was not until 1789, with the French Revolution, which 
culminated in the guillotined French kings, that the world gradually passed from 
feudalism to so-called democratic States, with an economic organization that was 
structured in what we now know as capitalism. This last economic model has also 
had a gradual development in these 200 years, having to cede rights and freedoms 
to the peoples, thanks to their struggles and organization against exploitation 
and inequalities that are direct products of the capitalist system.

We want something to be clarified, so as to avoid misunderstandings and 
misunderstandings, as we have pointed out, in the history of human societies, as 
well as in other societies of living beings on Earth, there is a continuous 
development towards social perfection, In other words, a constant evolutionary 
process.  But if one thing should be clear, it is that the evolutionary processes 
that life as a whole undergoes are not produced by spontaneous generation, but 
rather that between societies there is always an entity or factor that promotes 
this evolutionary reaction.

In human societies there has always been a confrontation between the two forces 
that compose it; On the one hand, there are the ruling classes (Kings, 
magistrates, politicians, judges, bourgeoisie, big businessmen, bankers, etc.) 
who resist in their position, putting all kinds of obstacles, such as laws and 
divine decrees, to maintain themselves as exploiters of society. . On the other 
are the exploited classes (workers, peasants, small owners, the entire working 
class as a whole) that only at the cost of a tenacious and often heroic social 
struggle, in all its nuances, are the ones that represent the factor that it 
makes possible the evolution of the social environment, since if it were not for 
the constant pressure and resistance to the oppression of the ruling classes, the 
working classes would not have conquered any of the freedoms that we currently 
enjoy. Without these struggles and organization of the popular classes, the 
social organization would continue in a state of semi-slavery or even in slavery.

Humanity, if its free evolution and natural development were allowed, would 
advance towards Anarchy, that is, towards a natural order based on mutual 
support, solidarity and freedom. But of course, the social class that governs the 
world will not allow social evolution to march harmoniously towards that 
improvement. Accustomed to laziness and parasitism, they create corrupt forms of 
coexistence with the aim of dispersing any attempt to improve the living 
conditions of the working classes, promoting lack of solidarity and selfishness 
marked by a lack of empathy towards those who suffer the most. , trying to 
undermine our natural instinct for mutual aid and solidarity.

If something could be clear, it is that, although nature inevitably advances 
towards the improvement of the societies of all living beings that inhabit the 
planet, including the human species, the latter or more precisely, a handful of 
humans who control their societies by Through oppression and a pyramidal 
structure that is maintained through power relations and violence, they slow down 
the evolutionary process. We will only reach the last rung of social evolution if 
we continue the fight that our ancestors started; just as the slaves shed their 
blood to put an end to their masters and slavery, as the vassals of feudalism cut 
off the heads of kings in the guillotine and opened the way to horizons of more 
political freedom, as the first working class fought tirelessly against the 
exploitation that was carried out on it, achieving great salary and labor 
improvements, it is up to us to follow that evolutionary and revolutionary 
current. Perhaps we cannot march by leaps and bounds towards an anarchist 
society, towards a social improvement where social contradictions such as the 
class difference are abolished, but we can ensure that progress does not stop for 
a long time, pressing, organizing and fighting against the institutions that 
delay social harmony. If we want a society where there is neither hunger, nor 
exploitation, nor hatred and all the evil that exists today, we must fight in 
every possible way against the capitalist system, against all forms of 
domination, wherever it comes from, against the state and capital. for An-archy!
Francisco Castañeda Mtz.
Melchor Ocampo, State of Mex.
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