A-Infos (en) Italy, FdCA, IL CANTIERE #39 - I THINK THAT A DREAM LIKE THIS... - Paola Perullo (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

What happened in the recent massive mobilizations in support of the 
Palestinian people requires, in my opinion, a reflection that goes 
beyond the cold words of commentators and the aseptic analyses of 
geopoliticians. The element of spontaneity was strong. In the instinct 
to mobilize, there was, in my opinion, an attempt to somehow recreate, 
within oneself, the suffering that shines through in the images of war, 
to transform it into a pain that could be given meaning without wanting 
to erase it from consciousness.

The Global Sumud Flotilla's decision to reach Gaza by sea and declare, 
"We will no longer stand by helplessly as thousands of boys and girls 
starve to death," has reawakened the humanity within each of us, which 
needed to be reaffirmed.
Many political parties can't explain this, because by a certain 
political logic, the mobilization is somehow "controlled" by purely 
ideological convictions, and everyone tries to take ownership of it. 
However, humanity's strength lies precisely in the ability to react 
wholeheartedly to injustice, and when we perceive this type of reaction, 
we cannot remain idle.
On the one hand, we are certain that humankind is endowed with these 
specific characteristics from birth; on the other, we must grasp that 
core of religiosity that is linked to the drive for annihilation 
directed against human reality.
This core is the hidden root of war, for that mentality that believes 
that dogma and ideology, imperial and omnipotent delirium, are more 
important than the lives and dreams of children and women, of 
defenseless elderly people who cannot defend themselves.
There is a rational time that can be spatialized, objectified, measured, 
and shared: it is the time of the clock and the calendar.
Then there is lived time, but it would be better to call it living time, 
which constitutes the fabric of our very lives. Already explored by 
Husserl*, at the basis of lived time is the becoming that eludes 
discursive thought: we can only experience it, because its 
characteristic is the "vital impulse."
In Minkowski**, it is also a temporal phenomenon that describes our way 
of experiencing time and relating to the "becoming environment," in 
other words, to having a vital contact with reality: "the vital impulse, 
and only the vital impulse, creates the future before us, because it is 
nothing other than the powerful and mysterious expression from which our 
life, our ideas, our feelings, our tendencies spring."
We saw thousands of young men and women marching in demonstrations, and 
on their faces we could read the vital impulse of rebellion against the 
inhumanity imposed by all wars, and in particular by the two-year 
genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
We felt that pacifism was suddenly freeing itself from ideological 
abstraction and religious anthropology, to claim a meaning and an 
emotional participation in resistance to the logic of oppression of the 
strongest and to violence. On this point, teachers are now called upon 
to keep alive this rebellion expressed by the youngest against 
dehumanization.
From this point of view, the reflections of Luigi Fabbri*** in his book 
"The School and the Revolution" appear very timely.
Fabbri says: "...For if hunger can be, and often is, an incentive to 
revolt, the true factor of rebellion is rather the culture that educates 
people to a high moral and ideal sentiment. This education, which 
teaches people the beauty of living, thus translates into an incitement 
to fight for the right to life, the right to bread, to knowledge, and to 
freedom."

*Edmund Husserl 1859-1938 (Austrian-German philosopher and 
mathematician, founder of phenomenology and member of the Brentano school).
**Eugène Minkowski 1885-1972 (born in St. Petersburg but obtained French 
citizenship in 1915, fighting in the French army; he was one of the most 
important French exponents of phenomenological psychiatry of the 
twentieth century).
***Luigi Fabbri 1877-1935 (Italian anarchist and essayist, he played a 
leading role in the organization and theoretical development of the 
anarchist movement).

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