BY YOMANGO
So far and so long in the anti-globalization movement it should be clear that the whole thing with this global capital is finding it and opposing it everywhere and under every form, all along and all over our lives: since it's everywhere in your life, so that, whatever you do, it becomes fatter and slimmer, reaches farther and stronger.
Obviously, the great question remains "what's to be done?" and the answers can only be as multiple and diverse as the faces of this global capital. This one here is a proposal for the concept of a kind of civil disobedience which, as capital itself, is inserted into everyday life and which, unlike capital definitively, has to be joyous and enjoyable by everybody. We call it SCCPP “sabotaje contra el capital pasándoselo pipaâ€. An SCCPP has to be something you are willing to do, something you can do as often as possible and something you'll enjoy doing. It's got to be a sabotage against capital having fun. Within capitalism, most of us are either (1) alienated from our labour and hence dependent on the ruling classes for commodities as basic as food and clothing, (2) excluded from the division of labour, in which case we are likewise dependent on the State, or (3) performing unpaid and/ or unrecognised labour and hence dependent on patriarchal relations for food, clothing, etcetera. In any case, our access to resources is severely limited by contemporary relations of domination. One partial solution to this problem may be to steal. Sadly, however, many people living precariously on low incomes tend to either: (1) avoid shoplifting for anachronistic moral and/or ethical reasons; or (2) remain ignorant of the better methods and techniques of shoplifting, thus failing to maximise their lifting potential. From the onset, the golden rule of theft should be enounciated: never steal from somebody who could conceivably be a comrade. Be careful, too, about taking stuff from small 'corner store' type shops - - you could be ripping off someone in a situation not dissimilar to your own. On the whole, it is best to play it safe and go straight for the big corporate fuckers. Some people will suggest that shoplifters are a selfish breed, since 'we all pay for it in the end' through inflated prices to cover losses and so forth.
Thou shalt not steal
However, comrades, this and closely analogous arguments are used to justify lowering wages, breaking unions, lowering corporate taxation and taxation on the rich and corporate sector we may as well sell ourselves into bonded slavery now, or join the Liberal Party. No, the injunction against stealing from capitalism is itself a capitalist ideology and should be spurned as such. Although we have been taught that 'thou shalt not steal', an order historically backed by threats of divine retribution, this should not for one minute stop us from taking the redistribution of wealth into our own hands. Believe me, no-one is likely to do it for us.
Shoplifting from big corporations, either as organized collective actions, as the ones unemployed people have often performed, or as equally organized but performed by smaller groups: families, couples or individually, might be an edible way of showing the contradictions of capitalism, a highly enjoyable way of counteracting the global order of sleeping cities and shopping malls. Organized, sustainable shoplifting from big corporations will not only attack their price policy and/or their profits margins, it will force them to a further militarization of their space and space, but above all it will make you discover a set of new political pleasures, including the possibility of generous YOMANGO is a social disobedience initiative addresed to articulating politically a form of everyday enjoyable sabotage against capitalism such as the massive shoplifting currently going on against big corporations and their shopping malls. We will focus on exploring technical, legal and logistical aspects of this process. http://www.yomango.org http://www.sccpp.org
