Parmi les tr\u00e8s nombreuses particularit\u00e9s qui font du mouvement des \u00ab\u00a0indign\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, et de Occupy Wall Street<\/em> en particulier, quelque chose de tout \u00e0 fait particulier justement, c’est l’aspect de plus en plus mis en \u00e9vidence d’absence de buts pr\u00e9cis, de revendications sp\u00e9cifiques. Nous avions relev\u00e9 cela d’une fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s explicite et \u00e9videmment compl\u00e8tement approbatrice, notamment le 28 juin 2011<\/a>, \u00e0 propos des \u00ab\u00a0indign\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb d’Ath\u00e8nes. Cette fois, nous nous int\u00e9ressons aux observations de Chris Hedges, que nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, en d’autres occurrences. (Hedges, venu du New York Times<\/em>, Prix Pulitzer en 2002, compl\u00e8tement transform\u00e9 depuis par l’\u00e9vidence de la puissance des \u00e9v\u00e8nements, et par la caract\u00e8re absolument mal\u00e9fique du Syst\u00e8me.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nous citons d’abord des extraits d’une interview t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9e que Hedges a donn\u00e9e le 17 octobre 2011, dont des extraits sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s le 18 octobre 2011<\/a> par RAW Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « \u00ab\u00a0I spent 20 years overseas, I’m a war correspondent,\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> [Hedges] said. \u00ab\u00a0I came back and realized that corporations have carried out a coup d’\u00e9tat in my country.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> […] \u00ab\u00a0I covered the street demonstrations that brought down Milosevic, I’ve covered both of the Palestinian intifadas, and once movements like this start and articulate a fundamental truth about the society that they live in, and expose the repression, the mendacity, the corruption and the decay of structures of power, then they have a kind of centrifugal force, you never know where they’re going.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »He went on: \u00ab\u00a0What happens, and it’s true in all of these movements as well, is the foot soldiers of the elite, the blue uniform police, the mechanisms of control, finally don’t want to impede the movement. At that point, the power elite is left defenseless. So, where’s it going? No one knows. Even the people most intimately involved in the organization don’t know. All of these movements take on a kind of life and color that in some ways is finally mysterious. The only thing I can say, having been in the middle of similar movements, is that this one is real … And this one could take ’em all down.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Hedges went on to say that large segments of the blue uniform police largely agree with the 99 Percent movement, and that many other police are frustrated because protesters aren’t breaking windows, which they \u00ab\u00a0know how to handle.\u00a0\u00bb He added that the protesters’ \u00ab\u00a0non-hierarchical structure\u00a0\u00bb for decision making is \u00ab\u00a0brilliant,\u00a0\u00bb and suggested that he had nothing he could possibly teach them.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dans un article parall\u00e8le du 18 octobre 2011<\/a>, dans Truthdig.com<\/em>, Chris Hedges d\u00e9veloppe ses conceptions par rapport \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 du mouvement Occupy Wall Street<\/em>. Il se d\u00e9termine notamment avec des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences au pass\u00e9, notamment celle de FDR durant la Grande D\u00e9pression et, surtout, celle des ann\u00e9es 1960. Il oppose le lib\u00e9ralisme de FDR, alli\u00e9 objectif du Syst\u00e8me («Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s greatest achievement was that he saved capitalism<\/em>») au radicalisme de Martin Luther King dans se derni\u00e8re p\u00e9riode, lorsqu’il eût \u00e9volu\u00e9 effectivement vers le radicalisme extr\u00eame. En 1968, King avait compl\u00e8tement rompu avec le King du \u00ab\u00a0I have a Dream<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb de 1963, ic\u00f4ne soigneusement entretenue par le Syst\u00e8me, – pour devenir celui qui disait en 1968 : «For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you’ve got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ces id\u00e9es sont d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es dans cet article de Hedges, dont le titre renvoie \u00e0 ce mouvement dit des \u00ab\u00a0indign\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb, dont la version US s’est d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e apr\u00e8s l’Eurtope et les pays arabes, et qu’il d\u00e9finit selon la phrase fameuse : «A Movement Too Big to Fail.<\/em>» (Nous soulignons de gras un passage qui nous paraît si int\u00e9ressant, dans Truthdig.org<\/em>, le 17 octobre 2011<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n «There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights of the poor and the working class, have signed on to this movement because they fear becoming irrelevant. Union leaders, who pull down salaries five times that of the rank and file as they bargain away rights and benefits, know the foundations are shaking. So do Democratic politicians from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi. So do the array of \u00ab\u00a0liberal\u00a0\u00bb groups and institutions, including the press, that have worked to funnel discontented voters back into the swamp of electoral politics and mocked those who called for profound structural reform.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Resistance, real resistance, to the corporate state was displayed when a couple of thousand protesters, clutching mops and brooms, early Friday morning forced the owners of Zuccotti Park and the New York City police to back down from a proposed attempt to expel them in order to \u00ab\u00a0clean\u00a0\u00bb the premises. These protesters in that one glorious moment did what the traditional \u00ab\u00a0liberal\u00a0\u00bb establishment has steadily refused to do—fight back. And it was deeply moving to watch the corporate rats scamper back to their holes on Wall Street. It lent a whole new meaning to the phrase \u00ab\u00a0too big to fail.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Tinkering with the corporate state will not work. We will either be plunged into neo-feudalism and environmental catastrophe or we will wrest power from corporate hands. This radical message, one that demands a reversal of the corporate coup, is one the power elite, including the liberal class, is desperately trying to thwart. But the liberal class has no credibility left. It collaborated with corporate lobbyists to neglect the rights of tens of millions of Americans, as well as the innocents in our imperial wars. The best that liberals can do is sheepishly pretend this is what they wanted all along. Groups such as MoveOn and organized labor will find themselves without a constituency unless they at least pay lip service to the protests. The Teamsters’ arrival Friday morning to help defend the park signaled an infusion of this new radicalism into moribund unions rather than a co-opting of the protest movement by the traditional liberal establishment. The union bosses, in short, had no choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »The Occupy Wall Street movement, like all radical movements, has obliterated the narrow political parameters. It proposes something new. It will not make concessions with corrupt systems of corporate power. It holds fast to moral imperatives regardless of the cost.<\/em> It confronts authority out of a sense of responsibility. It is not interested in formal positions of power. It is not seeking office. It is not trying to get people to vote. It has no resources.<\/em><\/strong> It can’t carry suitcases of money to congressional offices or run millions of dollars of advertisements. All it can do is ask us to use our bodies and voices, often at personal risk, to fight back. It has no other way of defying the corporate state. This rebellion creates a real community instead of a managed or virtual one. It affirms our dignity. It permits us to become free and independent human beings…<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Effectivement, Hedges est un \u00ab\u00a0radicaliste extr\u00eame\u00a0\u00bb. Il s’agit d’une position qui repr\u00e9sente aujourd’hui la sagesse m\u00eame, on dirait presque paradoxalement la \u00ab\u00a0mod\u00e9ration\u00a0\u00bb. Seule cette position est capable, dans ce qu’elle provoquerait \u00e9ventuellement, d’aller vers une tendance qui porterait en elle un r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage d’un Syst\u00e8me dont la dynamique elle-m\u00eame, derri\u00e8re les simulacres de convenance sur les notions id\u00e9ologiquement grotesques par rapport \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0centre\u00a0\u00bb, de \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9mocratie\u00a0\u00bb, de \u00ab\u00a0lib\u00e9ralisme\u00a0\u00bb, est d’un extr\u00e9misme dissimul\u00e9 qui porte tous les signes de la subversion et de la dissolution de toutes les formes structur\u00e9es. Bien entendu, il s’agit d’une appr\u00e9ciation th\u00e9orique, car nous ne croyons pas que ces seules dynamiques humaines et terrestres qui sont \u00e9voqu\u00e9es \u00e0 propos de Hedges, toutes objectivement vertueuses qu’elles soient, pourront directement imposer un changement si radical. Par contre, certes, elles participent puissamment \u00e0 la d\u00e9gradation interne du Syst\u00e8me et \u00e0 l’acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration de la dynamique d’autodestruction de ce Syst\u00e8me qu’on connaît bien.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ce qu’il y a d’int\u00e9ressant dans les interventions de Hedges, c’est la description tr\u00e8s minutieuse, extr\u00eamement bien comprise par celui qui la fait, des d\u00e9veloppements des tactiques des divers \u00ab\u00a0indign\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb, et de Occupy Wall Street<\/em> d’une fa\u00e7on explicite, comme nous-m\u00eames les appr\u00e9cions depuis plusieurs mois. Il s’agit du refus d’\u00e9mettre des revendications pr\u00e9cises, et \u00e9galement du refus du pouvoir, du refus des responsabilit\u00e9s, qui impliquent justement que les \u00ab\u00a0indign\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb refusent de jouer avec les jeux pip\u00e9s du Syst\u00e8me. D’une certaine fa\u00e7on, nous pourrions dire qu’il s’agit d’une version \u00ab\u00a0op\u00e9rationnelle\u00a0\u00bb de l’inconnaissance<\/a>… Dans notre num\u00e9ro du 10 octobre 2011<\/a> (dont nous ferons tr\u00e8s prochainement un recensement), nous parlons de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d’un «activisme extr\u00e9miste du \u00ab\u00a0non-parti pris\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>», ou encore (partant de l\u00e0 r\u00e9f\u00e9rence du titre d’un livre de Raymond Aron, Le spectateur engag\u00e9<\/em>, en la renversant) : «Nous dirions que c’est la m\u00eame d\u00e9finition, mais invers\u00e9e : disons, \u00ab\u00a0l’activiste d\u00e9sengag\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, signifiant une participation \u00ab\u00a0politique\u00a0\u00bb aux \u00e9v\u00e8nements en cours, sans aucun choix politique et id\u00e9ologique dans les affrontements \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nous ne partageons pas certains des aspects de l’analyse de Hedges, qui reste un homme li\u00e9 \u00e0 certaines r\u00e9alit\u00e9s qui ont des liens avec le Syst\u00e8me, m\u00eame si ces r\u00e9alit\u00e9s sont radicalement oppos\u00e9es au Syst\u00e8me, mais nous appr\u00e9cions grandement sa perception des mouvement dynamiques en cours, leur apparente \u00e9tat de d\u00e9structuration, voire leur apparence de complet \u00e9tat de dissolution, utilis\u00e9s pour infecter ler Syst\u00e8me dans ce sens. Hedges comprend bien que cette sorte de n\u00e9gationnisme furieux et agressif, et complet, qu’il d\u00e9veloppe \u00e0 l’encontre du Syst\u00e8me, est la voie vers une r\u00e9sistance et une insurrection efficaces ; ce qu’il exprime moins pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment tout en laissant percer certaines allusions \u00e0 ce propos, alors que c’est \u00e9videmment l’essentiel, c’est combien cette forme d'\u00a0\u00bbinaction\u00a0\u00bb agressive et extr\u00e9miste (la version \u00ab\u00a0op\u00e9rationnelle\u00a0\u00bb de l’inconnaissance) est un formidable acc\u00e9l\u00e9rateur de la dynamique d’autodestruction du Syst\u00e8me. C’est l\u00e0 qu’est sa vertu essentielle, et c’est l\u00e0 bien entendu que les perspectives s’\u00e9largissent consid\u00e9rablement et nous projettent vers des hypoth\u00e8ses n\u00e9cessairement plus hautes que nos consid\u00e9rations politiques habituelles, fussent-elles extr\u00e9mistes. C’est l\u00e0 que nous touchons au domaine de la m\u00e9tahistoire, qui entre \u00e9videmment en jeu d’une mani\u00e8re puissante et irr\u00e9sistible avec l’effondrement (l’autodestruction) du Syst\u00e8me. Bien entendu, nous r\u00e9p\u00e9tons<\/a> et ne cesserons de r\u00e9p\u00e9ter que les USA ont une place centrale dans ce processus. La crise profonde actuelle de ce pays, menant \u00e9ventuellement \u00e0 un effritement ou \u00e0 un \u00e9clatement des USA, pr\u00e9figure n\u00e9cessairement<\/strong>, et \u00e0 une tr\u00e8s grande vitesse, l’effondrement du Syst\u00e8me, avec d’ailleurs la psychologie brusquement acquise \u00e0 cette perspective avec la fin de son emprisonnement, donc de l’emprisonnement de notre pens\u00e9e, que permettrait la dissolution de l’American Dream<\/em> accompagnant l’effondrement US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mis en ligne le 19 octobre 2011 \u00e0 11H10<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chris Hedges, ou la sagesse du radicalisme extr\u00e9miste Parmi les tr\u00e8s nombreuses particularit\u00e9s qui font du mouvement des \u00ab\u00a0indign\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, et de Occupy Wall Street en particulier, quelque chose de tout \u00e0 fait particulier justement, c’est l’aspect de plus en plus mis en \u00e9vidence d’absence de buts pr\u00e9cis, de revendications sp\u00e9cifiques. 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