There are obvious tendencies in industrial capitalism towards concentration of power in narrow economic empires and in what is increasingly becoming a totalitarian state. These tendencies have been going on for a long time and will continue unchecked.
Our societal trend indicates the emergence of a police state; the antithesis of protection of individual freedom.
The Amnesty International 2003 Annual observes and denounces the use by many governments of fear and indignation based on “anti-terrorist” logic as a device for repression, destruction of human rights and to justify the persecution of political dissidents.
It seems to me that anarchist ideology, or for that matter the Marxist structure, based on system of workers, councils and FEDERATIONS provides a collective set of individual levels of decision-making at which decisions can be made about a national plan at each level. The difference has to do with participation in those decisions and control over those totalitarian state decisions.
“ ETA: Extra Terrestre Dell’Amor” means a group of people, social thinkers, that contribute to a spiritual transformation in the way humans conceive of themselves and their ability to act, to decide, to create, to produce, to enquire – precisely that spiritual transformation Marxist social thinkers from Luxembourg through anarcho-syndicalists have always emphasized.
So on the one hand, ETA requires the spiritual transformation of Spanish society. On the other hand its purpose is to create institutions that contribute to that transformation in the nature of work, in the nature of creative activity, simply in social bonds among people. It is through this interaction of creating institutions that new aspects of human nature are permitted to flourish. ETA is the only terrorist organization that denounces the totalitarian control of government decisions in the totalitarian state of Spain against a minority group. The fact that an ethnic community is comprised of a small number of people in a limited territory, does note suppress the desire for freedom: the United Nations includes more than 20 states with less than 250,000 people.
Against the threat of a uniform world, menaced by globalization,ETA nationalists defend their land, their religion, their blood.
The political dissidents represented in the installation show a contradictory feeling of romantic liberation, of a territory under a pretext of ethno- cultural singularity and economical with full sovereignty and independence. Is this dangerous and illusory?