The Last Day Of Summer – Für Achim [Part l] Grandezza

The last day of summer Never felt so cold The last day of summer Never felt so old The Cure*"And if, as Nietzsche himself suggested, complete nihilism, understood as such, is humanity's great opportunity to escape its fatal fate, if, as Benjamin thought, nihilism can become the method of a new politics, then the question we must ask ourselves is: "Why was this opportunity not seized, what prevented us from really basing our cause on nothingness and in it, instead of making it our normal state, a way out of the fate of the West? find?” Giorgio Agamben - Give us our daily nothing today [1] There are words that would make no sense whatsoever to translate into German, or even to approach them.

You can explain their historical origins, load them with subtextual meaning, and literally circle them contextually.

All of this is a completely pointless exercise.

But anyone who has ever heard you speak about this poetry of a grandiose intellectuality that is sufficient for itself and does not try to narcissistically put its messenger in the right light, anyone who was able to experience it, has understood what 'Grandezza' means.

You could have won all the civil titles without any effort, they would have rolled out the red carpet for you at every university, you could have discussed all of them on the wall, all of these pompous lecturers, doctors and professors, whose intellectuality is pure habitus for the sake of effect, completely free of their own thought processes and penetration of reality.

You didn't believe it.

You wanted to play in dark clubs, produce crazy music and most of all you loved the dirt of the streets.

You knew that this was the only place where the conflictual nature of social antagonism was really played out.

So now it's almost two years since you're no longer with us, and I promised you a year ago that I would write to you again on the anniversary of your death and since that is approaching, here is the first letter to you.

Where should I start?

In therapeutic work they say that you should start with the most difficult thing, at least that's what smart people say, and since our dialogue is the dialogue of two ghosts, strictly speaking the monologue of a desperate lover, my letters to you are without a doubt a therapeutic undertaking.

So let's start with the hardest part.

The uprisings that have characterized the epoch of the last two decades, in pure desire to destroy what exists and in complete separation from the historically failed left and its Jacobinism, which even broke the limitations of the global Corona state of emergency and were even fueled by it (just think of the explosive spread of the riots in state-capitalist China, which wiped out the CCP's uncompromising totalitarian 'Zero-Covid' policy in just a few days swept), these uprisings have reached their historical limits.

Unable to open up the revolutionary horizon beyond themselves, they have exhausted themselves, or as French comrades recently wrote: “At times when the uprisings lose momentum, the revolutionaries find themselves in a position of apparent weakness.

Today our side is confronted with constitutive processes that arise when new possibilities are difficult to emerge; they strengthen democratic hegemony and obscure the nature of the ongoing war.

We must start from this weakness in the face of what must be called counter-revolution and explore the uprisings of our time in search of what persists as indomitable in the refusal of power.” Groupe Révolutionnaire Charlatan [2] This is where we stand.

And you have no idea how I miss the exchange with you about this.

Almost everyone around us is indulging in lustful defeatism; the apocalypse no longer marks the end of all our hopes, desires and efforts, but is actually longed for.

Finally letting yourself go, shamelessly living out your own hedonism, leaving all historical responsibility as a burden far behind, all that remains is the regressive retreat into pure consumer politics, alone or with the narrowest bubble, which only serves as an echo chamber for the same beliefs and moral self-congratulation.

And every drug is intended to numb the omnipresent pain, both social and that of the lost subjects.

Now that God is dead, which Agamben takes as the starting point for 'Give us our daily nothing today', faith immediately returns through the back door into social discourse. The only difference is that in the religious interpretation of the foundations of the world, one's own beliefs were still put as words into the mouth of an Almighty, or rather his prophets, while the modern collapse believer simply declares his own resignation as the ultima ratio. “The apocalypse in our everyday understanding of today shows that there is no alternative to this world; in it only what Kant called the end of all things manifests itself.

The order of contemporary apocalyptic discourse sees the apocalypse as nothing other than the end of this world, the alternative to which is nothingness.

It is therefore understandable that such a perspective petrifies, a true paralysis of thinking: 'The end of the world becomes the end of action.'" Gianluca De Fazio [3] You see, there is so much to think and write against powerlessness and the targeted placement of this powerlessness in social thinking, and this also applies to large parts of the camp, which ideologically sees itself as antagonism of the existing, but without any materialistic analytical access to it a sharpening global intensification of class antagonism is reeling from its own disorientation.

In April this year, the German Ministry of Defense published a military strategic document entitled “Responsibility for Europe”.

The Bundeswehr is to be expanded into the strongest conventional army in Europe.

In three phases, “technological superiority” over Russia is to be achieved in a good 10 years, or in other words, the possibility of waging war in Western Europe against Russia without US support.

And it is very significant that one has to look to Italian comrades [4] to find an analytical view of this German arms policy, which is manifested in this strategy paper.

What a disgrace for a German left whose history includes attempting to build a “Western European front against imperialist war.”

Whatever one may think of the concrete implementation of this “front policy”.

So no analyzes of the current strategies of our opponents, no effort to become capable of acting again in line with the times, instead a flood of comments throughout the summer about the next heat waves in order to recruit new disciples for the collapse movement, the question of armament policy is left to the campaign left, which was believed to be dead, which has already failed in a grandiose participatory manner in limiting the basic climatic conditions of living conditions and is now delighted with its rusty ones “Rheinmetall Disarm” campaign can breathe new life into it.

But here we are.

With defeat on our shoulders, the burden of fallen comrades to whom we owe at least one act of general revenge.

At second glance, our position may not be so hopeless; we just need to take a fundamentally different tactical and strategic approach to the fundamental problem.

The complete and unreserved recognition of the historical defeat as the starting point for all further considerations.

Now finally and completely free yourself from the baggage of false premises. “The recent uprisings teach us that the lack of one's own language and a positive project now represents the greatest obstacle to revolutionary action and even to revolutionary thought.

The revolutionary camp must face this contradiction by taking the bull by the horns: on the one hand, it must name the negativity that is still at work in society; on the other hand, it must bring to light revolutionary potentials beyond the impotence of the present, beyond the lack of leitmotifs, beyond the obsolescence of the past and beyond nostalgia for the working class and its historical mission.

In short: to recognize that the hypothesis of a history freed from all fetishism, a history as a conscious work of man, must break away from its origins and become a pure negativity in order to one day be able to formulate a positive project for humanity." Groupe Révolutionnaire Charlatan [5] But more on that in my next letter.

A new text from the Invisible Committee will be published in the autumn with the wonderful and telling title ‘Manuel de survie’, I am sure we would have so much to discuss.

But now I am forced to continue monologuing, and I and all of us sorely miss the sharpness of your analytical clarity.

You were a gift.

With love, see you soon.

Sebastian Lotzer, Berlin Kreuzberg – 29.

August 2026 Notes [1] https://bonustracks2.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/27/gib-uns-heute-unser-taegliches-nichts/ [2] https://bonustracks2.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/08/wird-es-zu-einem-1793-kommen-kritike-kommentare-zum-chilenischen-aufstand-und-zu-den-gelbwesten/ [3] https://bonustracks2.noblogs.org/post/2026/06/26/lachen-ueber-die-apokalypse/ [4] https://bonustracks2.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/04/die-deutsche-aufruestung/ [5] see [2]