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The day I call a government which makes a priority of paying the Paris club billions because it’s the only way to preserve the scrap industry -which is an actual barrier to the development of the productive forces needed to empower workers- while letting children starve to death (as in the province of Salta in Argentina) and forcing thousands to forced labor, which maintains the value of labor-power at a level lower than that left by the last military dictatorship by supporting itself on a putrefact bureaucratic trade-union led by an accomplice of that same military dictatorship and with a looong history of reactionary opportunism (notwithstanding the characterization of this leader as a “progressive element” by some in this list) so that it facilitates the murder of young militants (like Mariano Ferreyra) by protecting its ‘mastermind’, which promotes the false criminalization of the laid-off workers who are struggling for the cause for which this young militant died and are being persecuted by the police and the (in)justice system, which allies itself with other truly bourgeois revolutionary governments to form the ONE Latin-American nation which sends the police and the gendarmes to squash workers who take over abandoned factories as in the case of the struggle against Kraft foods (Argentina) and the workers of Flasko (Brasil) serving (in a plate!) the interests of capital (and no small, or Latin-American, capital at that), which supposedly “combats” these problems of the flexibilization of labor with more of that flexibilization, which positively facilitates and covers up for the murdering of oppressed indigenous peoples (as the Tobas in Argentina), which complains about the dangers of the right when it seals succulent business deals with its top people behind the curtains, oh! And which in all solidarity sends troops to Haiti to help “manage” the situation, etc. etc. etc. etc. (and I mean ETCETERA: http://cuandolacabezanoquiere.blogspot.com/2010/10/letania-k-este-gobierno-no-reprime.html) …the day I call such governments ‘progressive’ because I can’t see further than the superficial movements of so-called redistribution policies while obfuscating the necessary tasks for the struggle of workers, i.e. the tasks to combat this REGRESSIVE form of capital accumulation, and like a petty radical democrat scream “IMPERIALISM” at everything I don’t like to then ideologically (and I mean here ideology of the petty-bourgeois kind) invert the relations of production (capital) for their outward appearance, puffing and puffing about geopolitics and the power battles between “NATIONS” (as if they were some sort of self-subsistent things) while perpetuating the ideological inversion which only serves to break the struggle of workers and make them compete against each other,…so that there is no possible way of understanding the necessity of one’s political as determined by this social-being (capital),… that’s the day I’ll forget about conscious political action, like that the old Karl defended. Till that day though, it’d be interesting to see if anyone has to say something about how that political action has to be based on an objective understanding of the determinations of capital. So far... (p.s. am I being obnoxious?, very well, I'm being obnoxious!) ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
