En relación a RE: [CrashList] Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Unnatural Dis,
el 29 Jan 01, a las 18:56, Mark Jones dijo:
> isn't predicting crises what Marxist social theory is about?
>
> As far as the failure of so-called 'deregulation' in California goes, what they
> called deregulation actually wasn't that, it was just a different kind of
> regulation which allowed finance capital to get a grip more directly on the
> circulation of value, and the valorisation process, of energy production (which
> previously had tended to be either state-owned or subject to formal kinds of
> price and investment-planning processes). The industry was still highly
> regulated, but not by the previous keynesian/indicative planning methods.
> Neoliberlaism is *not* actually "deregulation". Markets not only regulate, they
> require a strong framework of law and other kidns of regulation, and this
> existed in California (and has now collapsed).
Many of the features that "neo"-liberalism is displaying in the First World now
have been repeatedly tested in the dependent countries before.
It isn't even necessary to be a Marxist to discover this, if you are a serious
revolutionary in an oppressed formation. During the early 60s, and in the midst
of an ideological battle against the supporters of imperialist takeover of
Argentinean economy, the national revolutionary publicist Arturo Jauretche was
engaged in struggle against the self-christened "libre empresistas"
("freebusinessers"), who countered what they described as "dirigismo"
("commanderism"). Of course, this was a new way to define the imperialist vs.
national blocs, but what interests here is that the line of attack by Jauretche
was precisely the one that Mark has exposed above.
"El libre-empresismo es el dirigismo de ellos" (Freebusiness is _their_
command) was Jauretche's definition, which can easily translate, now, to
"deregulation is _their_ regulation". I sometimes wonder if it would not be
convenient for comrades in the First World to begin reading the work of those
revolutionaries in the Third who confronted the same economic "theories" that
are now beginning to plunder the fund of reproduction of the working classes at
the core. Perhaps they would find a couple of ideas that may prove useful.
Hug,
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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