TABLE OF CONTENTS
Politics
and ontology
Rationality
and autonomy
Autonomy
Property

Politics
and ontology
The political interrogation
- what to do ? - is inextricably related to the ontological question -
what is existence ? All human activity is necessarily political as it is
an inevitable creation of a way of doing. And it is consequently ontological
as a practical assertion-creation of a meaning-direction of existence in
and by existence.
Outside of any conscience,
creation, reflexion or theoretic clarification, existence - "reality" -
is essentially a political-ontological creation-production-activity, a
social construction of which politics is the determining term as it is
the practical-efficient side of this creation. All societies establish,
create their own world. Its the specific organization - meaning and institution
- of a society which poses and defines for example what, for a considered
society, is “information”, what is “noise” et what is nothing at all; or
the “ relevance”, the “weight”, the “value” and the “meaning” of “information”;
or the “program” of elaboration of, and response to” a given “information”,
etc. Every society is a construction, a constitution, a creation of a world,
of its own world. Its own identity is nothing but this world it creates
et the world, “reality” and the first natural stratum only exist for society
in and by this creation.
This creation-activity
is not absolute; it cannot transgress nor ignore the laws of physics, it
erects itself upon this laws, on the first natural stratum, but it establishes
new laws, its laws. The constraints imposed by the physical world to the
organization of the living being give us an essential part of our comprehension
of this organization. But what the physical world as such insurmountably
imposes or forbids to society - and therefore, to all societies - is entirely
trivial and doesn’t teach us anything. The impossible and the obligatory
do not exhaust the expanse of the possible in human political-ontological
creation-activity.
Rationality
and autonomy
The project of autonomy
supports itself theoreticaly on full rationality from which it is inseparable
- and not the “rationality” of scientism or “Reason”. True rationality
is above all consciousness of the non-coherence, of the limits and of the
inevitable lacunarities of rationality vis-a-vis of reality, explicit and
deliberated confrontation with the abyss of meaning which is existence
and consequently opening of indefinite and limitless questioning, without
respite. The project of autonomy is the practical-political side of this
limitless questioning. Rationality is not an absolute ontological justification
of the project of autonomy or of an illusory ineluctability of an autonomous
society. It is an anti-basis, a non-ontology, a foundation on the vacuum
inevitably left by the limits of rationality and not on the vacuum of an
absolute pseudo-nothingness, which is not the negation of theology but
simply a negative theology.
In front of the nonexistence
of any total or absolute knowledge, of any theological revelation, the
political-ontological question and, therefore, creation-activity cannot
receive a legitimate transcendental closure. In addition, the determinations
of the social-historic are for the social-historic neither decisive, nor
indifferent, the impossible and the obligatory, far from exhausting its
field, leave the essential out of their reach. No ontological or rational
“truth”, no natural determination constrains men to live in one way and
not the other. The activity of men is creation of a meaning-direction which
exceeds rationality. Any practical and theoretical answer is effectively
immanent; rationality and the project of autonomy are the emergence of
an opposition to any immanent closure. The - respectively theoretic and
practical-political - political-ontological non-response of rationality
and the project of autonomy are the opening of limitless and indefinite
questioning and suppression of the mystical and mythical unity of theocratic
society.
Autonomy
The project of autonomy
supports itself on the deficit of meaning of the world and does not seek
to fill it. It is the institution of a social framework - material conditions
- which opens a limitless and indefinite practical questioning, because
this questioning can only be mutilated if it is satisfied only to be theoretic.
It is the rational project of the framework and not of the global content,
of the cultural ensemble which are necessarily creation beyond rationality,
opening of a voluntarily indefinite possible and finally autonomous otherness.
It is the project of an explicit, direct and institutional political-ontological
immanence.
Individual, intersubjective
and social-historic freedoms are reciprocally inherent and imply themselves
circularly but the determining and revolutionarily decisive instance is
the social-historic, collective-anonymous, human-impersonal, institutional,
material, concrete, practical, legislative, organizational dimension. The
individual is nothing but society. In total absence of society the individual’s
fate is death or inhumanity. Otherness is inseparable from individual ipseity.
The social-historic is global otherness. An individual’s autonomy is undissociable
from the autonomy of others; full individual autonomy is necessarily social;
to aim integral individual autonomy is to aim autonomous otherness, beyond
oneself and one’s intersubjective relations. The personal freedom is thus
impossible apart from social freedom. The specificity of individual - an
autonomous relation with one’s unconscious - and intersubjective freedoms
is residual. The monadic phantasm - to isolate individual and intersubjective
freedoms from social-historic freedom - is in fact an ideological, political,
negation of the project of social-historic autonomy. On the other hand,
social-historic freedom considered separately ? the revolutionary seizure
of power - is not a negation of individual and intersubjective freedoms;
it establishes the political conditions of their accomplishment. Thus when
we employ the term freedom - or autonomy - without addition we exclusively
mean freedom as specifically a social-historic.
In the same way, the
imaginary and the institution of a society are correlated but the institution
is the decisive revolutionary moment.
The fight for freedom
is consequently above all a combat for a free society - a society where
activity and consequently the mode of property offer to individuals the
greatest possible freedom; a society where the totality of social institutions
are determined explicitly and directly by all so as not to harm neither
social autonomy, nor individual autonomy.
To render impossible
all that exists independently of individuals. To transform general interest
into particular interest and particular interest into general interest.
To playfully build reality in a classless society. To transform the law
of offer and demand in a game of needs, desires and capacities. To appropriate
the material means of life for purposes of individual and collective free
use. To establish direct democracy. Here are the tasks the antitheocratic
counsels, the weapon of self-emancipation created by the historical
movement of autonomy.
Property
From the revolutionary
point of view, the practical-institutional-collective side of freedom is
central, consequently property is the central revolutionary and political
question. Property to the fullest extent possible of social appropriation
of reality, i.e. the global mode of sharing of and participation in the
social appropriation - appropriation in production, consumption, of objects,
means, places, beings, life - is the core of social political-ontological
activity. Capitalism, the state, hierarchy, the separation between politics
and economy, theocratic inclusivity and exclusivity, totalitarianism, democracy,
the councils are modes of property or modes of social appropriation. Radical
critique is thus above all a critique of the alienation of the possibility
of appropriating reality in an autonomous manner in theocratic societies.
In raising their reign
on the ruins of the monarchical world, the capitalists managed to preserve,
behind the modern pseudo-democratic state's spectacle of freedoms, the
last and most important of privileges, the one which contains
all the others: property, which they pretended to abolish in its feudal
form to in fact better reinforce it as commodity and secondarily state
property, that is to say as a means of domination of their class on all
the others and of the commodity on the world. The abstract right
to property, proclaimed in the declaration of human rights, is the right
for the immense majority to always be dispossessed of any real property
on the materiel means of its life. It is not an accident if the first democracies
were democratic only by owners' vote. The capitalist property of space
and time is the last rampart which impedes the individual and collective
free use of life in the federated
antitheocratic counsels.
CAN THE ALLOWED PLEASURES BE COMPARED WITH THE PLEASURES WHICH JOIN TOGETHER ALONG WITH EVEN MORE TITILLATING ATTRACTIONS THE INAPPRECIABLE RUPTURE OF SOCIAL RESTRAINTS AND OVERTHROWING OF ALL LAWS?