(177) Friday September 24
"The big difference between a cat and a liar is that the cat has only nine lives," said Mark Twain.
How many lives has the neoliberal lie? Are they many or few who still believe in this model of society that revolves around privatization, economic liberalization and deregulation, with its false promises of spilled glass to reach the poor? How many still think that the bail in the state is the greatness of the country? Our present seems to be attending the funeral of these ideas. However, how far is dead this dead? Are we looking for the dead who is alive? Back to Marx Twain and ask, how many lives has neoliberalism?
a place of common political analysis would say that neoliberalism in Argentina with Menem died and was buried with De la Rua, and right now in this mess breaks bonded opposition to the government would be a return of the living dead. Within this logic, the government would be the main and almost the only instance that overcomes the dark past and who gets the credit for lay bare the selfish interests of large economic groups and corporations historically allied to them.
But go slowly. "If one tears a lie, said O'Neill, the pieces are the truth. " Today we run that risk. It would be foolish and miserable failure to recognize that this government has taken significant steps over the distribution of wealth and real and symbolic power. However
hurt and no photos are more than an accident or an isolated policy. In particular there is a snapshot that shows our President sharing a social meeting with executives of Barrick Gold in Toronto megaminera, it hurts. And it hurts just by the symbolic and which involves as a concrete reality. Barrick is a mining company with huge investments, founded by Peter Munk with money from the principal arms dealer in the world Adnan Kashogui, exploiting our natural resources by polluting techniques completely open areas should be protected, developing a true depletion of natural resources. Do I need to remember that this land and groundwater contamination in addition to destroying the environment, flora and fauna at a level that would take more than 100 years for recovery, produces terminal illnesses such as cancer, among others? In political, economic these companies with tax-free field laughable and just plain mean flight of capital and profits outside the country.
Both the agricultural and mining model that began to settle in late of the last decade affected poor peasants and indigenous peoples, a muted sector and located in the antipodes of the Liaison Bureau.
By this we mean that the neoliberal model is still largely in use, it has a transvestite, dressed up, turning its activity towards the exploitation and appropriation of natural resources. You no longer need the scrapping of national states and the precariousness of work and its laws. The task was already done. Now the focus has shifted.
Neoliberalism melts like the market is volatile, subtle, ethereal.
Our economic growth based on exports of commodities and minerals, is not it ends up being a kind of reprimarization of the country's productive structure that makes us short-and long-term dependents? Think of those who continue to receive the greatest benefits of this economic model. Is it coincidence that 10 years ago banks closed their doors today with the largest profit in its history?
It is not only natural resources policy black hole of this government. Deserve a separate paragraph which is still carrying around the sale of products produced by the "field", the old and powerful caste exports (Cargill, Dreyfus, Bunge ...). Also agribusiness and all laboratories of chemicals (Monsanto, Bayer ...). And even the pools soy that are installed rapidly to stay with the juiciest profits of this country with the subsequent annihilation soybean soil.
Questions: Do not we have a policy conceived as a simple business management? What is the real role of the bases in the major decisions of government? What is the construction of power in the people not involved or expressed, or meets, or represent? Is not that popular protagonist the greatest guarantee of being away from authoritarianism and one time the best antidote to the unearthing of the disastrous neoliberal? The truth of the neoliberalism of the 90 criticized the ruling as if he had nothing to do, is not too late in a narrative that is not fully take charge of their own mistakes, yesterday and today? Who hopes to tell the truth when no other outlet, is not touching the lie? While
always remain in effect the scheme "oligarchy against the people", is not such a scheme is reduced to an excuse for their unconditional support to the government, at the same time removing any pressure to the same deepen the changes we are demanding ? Will it be as true to say these things is to play into the right rough opposition? Do not we need to start looking at the glass half empty for anyone to fill Garbage?
Yes, "the big difference between a cat and a liar is that the cat has only nine lives." What you have to like it, is always falling unemployed.
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