ASAP

One of the high points of the 90s was the Association of Autonomist Astronauts, an Italian group that really knew how to have fun. Half situationist prank and half earnest statement, the AAA combined unabashed futurism with a playful longing for freedom. While the AAA officially dissolved in 2000 upon completion of its ironic five year plan, self-proclaimed cells have continuously popped up since. Their writing was fun and dry, the European counterpoint to North America’s green anarchists, and likewise contained a fierce hostility to traditional Class Warriors:

The debate with the Men In Red then recommenced in earnest. Riccardo did his best to translate in what was a fairly hectic situation. Essentially MIR’s position seems to be that humanity is tarnished with “micro-fascism” and will simply take this into space unless capitalism is destroyed beforehand. Their priority is to join up with aliens and fight the revolution on earth. To which the obvious responses are:

i) Why wait for aliens to arrive when we can build our own spaceships and go and find them?
ii) Why assume that some “other” type of creature needs to help us when we can liberate ourselves? (And why assume that aliens will have ideas identical to the Italian autonomist movement?)
iii) Why bring noxious ideas like “micro-fascism” into the debate, which just sound like the Christian idea of Original Sin?

The Men In Red, like all politicos, want us to stay firmly on planet earth until the time is “right”. In this they are exactly the same as state agencies like the church (who want us to behave until we get to “heaven”), government (who need us to pay taxes), or army (who want us to spectate as they destroy not only this planet, but also the rest of the galaxy). (source)