Constitutive practices

Negli anni Settanta, il primo maggio fu una ricorrenza stantia e anche un po’ gaglioffa. Stantia, perché le lotte operaie – e la politica, e la vita in genere – se ne tenevano scrupolosamente alla larga. In quelle adunate prive di ogni allegria, c’era soltanto il sindacato in quanto istituzione nevralgica dello Stato keynesiano.

On 15 February 2003 when millions of people all over the world took to the streets to stop the war, many felt that military global power was about to lose all consensus and that this could signal the beginning of its crisis. But power is no longer grounded on consensus, but terror, ignorance and technological-economic financial and psychic automotisms, that politics is no longer able to control and that mass action is no longer able to modify or stop.