(171) Saturday August 14, 2010
When I was studying philosophy ever caught or called false dilemma fallacy of the excluded. This is a logical trap in which it is stated that two views are the only options, when in fact there are one or more alternative options have been considered. "You re-elect the ruling party or give wings to the right?" "Are you with us or with the forces of evil?".
false dichotomy, false opposition, which can sometimes serve as a first and tentative scheme of interpretation, but at the same time to be a tool for thinking about reality in all its complexity, the impoverished and reduced to a clumsy scrawl.
Last week corporate membership meetings produced two striking, no doubt linked. One was plenty widespread public: that of the popes of the Argentina business association with the Industrial Union of Argentina. It seems that talk of legal, institutional quality and business. What else could talk these guys?
The other meeting was more secret, but not both. At least it was at night, this time when all cats are gray. There, they joined the Peronist leaders Duhalde, Sola de Narváez and Reutemann, with Macri. The dinner was organized by Magnetto, at home.
In both meetings it became clear the centrality of Magnetto, power-not any meeting with these people, and their role less and less subtle.
One thing nothing secondary: in both games the field and stood outside the church. Symbolic. The national business and political right seem to need to take "some" distance from these institutions. The clumsy speech Biolcatti in rural society to some extent left him outside, do not tell the real political power, but if it presentable or politically correct. The same happened to the church that displayed the most awkward fundamentalism the debate over equal marriage law. Yet to be taken for granted that both the leadership ideologically country as the church work for the same path by circulating Magneto with his cronies in power.
far pole of this reality: the right, perhaps at its most grotesque. Will it happen that unaccustomed to democratic rules, friend and promoter of what was hit in the country, now pulls smacking of drowning? Or just gather himself to not lose a single inch of power? The alliances of these days, are a sign of strength or rather of weakness or desperation? Surely
continuing fear some of the policies of what appears clearly as the other pole, the Baldwin Brothers, which for them means a threat to their interests. That is, these people are opposed to the government so he can have good or successful. Still thinking about a return long and sad neoliberal night with privatization, economic liberalization and deregulation that destroyed the country.
In this way the national political scene in broad strokes is mounted on a false duality, a government with some progressive features that have a right to this parasitic leadership. In this context it is difficult to see how this thing right in line with the government, even partially. He agreed to think that you can end with poverty and justice without touching the ownership structure, ie without changing the basic relations of power. The difference is that the government wants to distribute in any way, spread a little, and they, greedy, just want to own it all.
What's left of this map? Little or nothing, at least within this dual logic. In reality, however, may be some social groups, partisan or grassroots movements, critical of the model and understand that policies focused on combating poverty in the end seek to avoid conflict and nullify the pressures arising from bases exist only subject to state or business to compensate and deepen the neoliberal model. For real power and the scheme of the excluded middle is not much room for these players with alternative thoughts.
These days, Zibechi valuable Uruguayan thinker and activist, in line with these ideas, said that the neoliberal model in Latin America has mutated its profile: it has focused on the appropriation of the commons. And it has been deepened through transnational mining opencast monoculture soybean, sugar cane and palm, and forestry-pulp complex. Their strategy is to appropriate water and soil by reducing nature to goods exported to countries that send powerful and determine policies of all kinds.
From this view may be some questions, How much is a progressive kirchnerismo? Who should be the kind of bipartisan polarization expressed in terms of right vs. government as an expression and synthesis of transforming any alternative? Certain branches of the progressive voices that has achieved this government, do not stop giving support to the misleading dualism? Can we ignore it whenever he felt it necessary to Peronism was commissioned to restore the relations of capitalist domination? Are not we missing a look that overcomes this false dichotomy? Enrique said
Jardiel Ponce, "The truth is much like the lack of imagination."
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