Austerity plans, anthracite suits, annual reports, faces without expression, optimization of economic monotony. Just another palace of glass in a city in which already a legion of them took up quarters. Presidents, prime ministers, responsable reponsables, pervaded by the importance of their rituals all around price fluctuations, trading in stock, key interest rates. They pretend to administer the system in the interest of all, like solicitous heads of family. Yet they don't lead a household but a war. In the guise of economic imperatives an encompassing offensive is under way.
Quarters, lives, whole regions are devastated, occupied, subjected, sold – as ruins or mere „investment“. The destructions are visible, tangible in the looks, in the streets. Today, we rarely die in the battlefield, we are rather driven to suicide. There are no boms falling, the troups of normality don't wear uniforms, look like our neighbors. But there exist plans, strategies. We are targeted – for a long time already. A deadly idea of life is to be imposed on us. But life is not equivalent to counting, to working, to optimizing, to the maintenance of our digital self. Life, to us, means to share, to partizipate, to meet, to love, to think, to play, to create bonds of friendship or to fight.
We will go to Frankfurt to defend our lives, our ideas of life and the possibility to revolt in the name of these ideas. We will come for a counterattack. The (down)fall of the European Central Bank does not represent our final political horizon, the ECB is more like an irksome wart one wants to get rid of. The process, that will bring us to Frankfurt and farbeyond it, has to tally with the life we want to live.
This paper is made for this. A journal in order to blow off our confusion, to sharpen our perception of the situation. To get a glimpse of the full richness of the real, all the complexity that gets lost in the big words of the politicians or in the stroboscopelight of ideology. A journal in order to reenter into a discussion across borders and in as many tongues as possible. To contribute to let emerge a revolutionary force, finally capable to act on the height of times – an international without a name.
