Isolation is one of the most powerful weapons of capitalism. It serves to subject everything, society and interpersonal relationships, to the dictates of the commodity. In doing so, the existing society turns out to be a community of consumption, from social media to nightlife. Not only “goods” are commodified, but also people – and (one’s) categorization contributes to this.
Freedom became (through alienation) something you can “afford” or quite simply, buy. Freedom became the condition of not being in jail – a place where isolation is the top priority.
The dream of social revolution, of the transformation all conditions, is not dead. The attempt to break the isolation, to meet in the streets and not only to inflame hearts continues. Certainly it is an ambitious project, which is perhaps too much for the reality in which these words are written and certainly for the conservative country, Luxembourg. But what should we care about reality if it’s only a buzzword (of resigned people and profiteers of the existing order) that everything should remain as it is?
And if you also think that Pippi Longstocking is an invention of the bourgeoise, where the industry of the spectacle captures the imagination and disobedience. Then the necessary questions are: how to break the isolation? How to create places of encounter and resistance? How to fight together? How to realize revolutionary projects? How to put the world upside down? A contribution to this is the anarchist project Papiermâché.
