By Gérard Florenson

Automatic translation made by AI

The latest trend: the survival kit that everyone should have at home to last a few days in the event of a disaster until normal living conditions are restored. In the event of a disaster? Governments and even the European Union (EU) say it clearly: in the event of military conflict, we are invited to prepare for it.

While waiting for ready-made kits to be sold in supermarkets, in circles where nothing is lacking and unpredictable citizens are enthusiastically punished, they discuss what the kit should contain. On the list of must-have items they even thought of a card game to pass the time in the shelters!

This sudden concern is surprising. Dramatic situations are not new, not even in Europe: floods, heavy snowfalls, earthquakes and even accidents in chemical plants have not only caused victims and destruction, but have also left populations homeless or at least isolated, without electricity or drinking water. However, they did not tell us about a survival kit.

What is clear is that climate change will increase the risks and that the safety savings from facilities, including nuclear power plants, are going in the same direction. Instead of defending individual storage, we must question the concentration of large-scale distribution and the policy of having the minimum.

In addition to the everyday items that many of us already have at home, we are advised to stock up. Ministers, military, journalists in charge, these people do not know the difficult ends of the month of those who can barely anticipate their purchases and it is easy to preach when you have well-stocked cupboards and a warehouse.

War tomorrow? Instant winnings!

The hype around the survival kit has a single objective: to scare people into accepting sacrifices that will allow colossal sums to be spent on military budgets, to the detriment of useful services. For the capitalists, it is more profitable to manufacture tanks and missiles than to sell candles. The customers are all there: the States, whose job it is to become solvent by cutting social benefits. And in all countries preparations are being made to increase the number of death factories.

At the same time, the threat of war serves to justify restrictions on democratic freedoms. We see repression against an alleged apology for terrorism, opponents of rearmament will soon be internal enemies….

“Capitalism carries with it war as a cloud carries with it a storm” (Jean Jaurès). If we want peace, bread and freedom, let us destroy capitalism!