For some time we are observing increasingly stronger tendencies towards “retraditionalization” of society with strengthening the “tradition” of patriarchal violence through systemic measures on the level of Slovenian state and on a wider scale of Fortress Europe. We understand the current agenda pulled out of the archive for conscription as a part of xenophobic tendencies that play on machoization and patriarchisation of society.
We understand the spread of the military sphere – let this be conscription, giving additional authorizations to the army, their growing presence or the additional and substantial finances for the razor wire, security cameras and other military technology – as strengthening of the aggressive discourse turned against the people and public interests no matter against whom or for what these measures are introduced and performed. Right wing xenophobic politics love to abuse our bodies, stating our bodies need protection from someone or something, as an argument for before mentioned current manoeuvres for spreading of military sphere.
We are against this racist raping of our bodies!
Our bodies are not objects for reproduction of nationalist, xenophobic and racist paradigms. We reject the spectacle of a “migrant threat” and usage of our bodies as a lever through which they justify their aggression towards people on the way. Violence that we are really experiencing is the violence of local bosses and domestic testosterone overly potent jerks.
Nobody will decide in our name when we are threatened or when our rights are threatened!
The rights we live today were never given to us, not by the state or some nationalist. We the oppressed have won them through struggle. And we will continue to fight for ourselves and in our own name and therefore also decide by ourselves when we are threatened and by whom. Our tradition is a tradition of social struggles that were and remain anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and anti-nationalist. In this context all attempts of legitimation of the army, military industry and devastation of war as its final product come forward as the discoursive terror that is hustling the society with nationalistic machistic virus – we are strongly opposing that! Fantasies of white supremacy should stay your private masturbation!
Migrants are not a safety threat – the army is!
The introduction of conscription is an attempt of introducing yet another compulsory indoctrinating state institution where they manifaxcturely tan the human skin to suit the murderous war machine. Military upbringing violently strengthens hierarchical relations and praises macho culture and nationalism. These patterns are transported as a rule from army trainings and battle grounds into domestic relations and other spheres of civil society where domination and violence become even more taken for granted and a desired philosophy and praxis of interpersonal relationships. We oppose the introduction of conscription also in the light of struggle against mass expansion of violence in domestic and work environment as well as on the streets.
In contemporary precarious society of certain uncertainness where we are slowly killed by the system on an everyday basis by expropriation, individualization and marginalization, we most certainly don’t intend to kill other expropriated and oppressed and die for imposed ideals through draft and in the name of the system.
Let’s not fool ourselves – conscription would really and mainly be a good business for military industry that most certainly isn’t in the interest of people.
We will not have blood on our hands for you and your interests!
We also reject in advance the conscription discourse that would go in direction of equal mobilization of women into army sphere.
We reject equality per se as we are not interested in equality under oppression!
Tradition of collective and individual desertion is the only gesture of equality in rebellion that we are interested in the context of the army.
We will not give birth, live and die – not for the state not for the Fortress Europe and not for NATO!
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