En relación a RE: [CrashList] Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Unnatural Dis,
el 30 Jan 01, a las 11:36, Patrick Bond dijo:
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> ... the Third World has taken the greatest burden of
> shifting/stalling the devalorisation associated with the global
> crisis. But Nestor, you'd also agree, wouldn't you, that any yankee
> paying attention to neoliberalism would have had her/his
> consciousness raised by the late 1970s onset of sustained
> deindustrialisation, the early 1980s farm crisis, the mid-1980s
> energy-sector crisis, the late 1980s savings&loan crisis, the early
> 1990s property market and junk-bond crises, and the other periodic
> crashes of financial markets. Each had features associated with
> "deregulation" and each reflected the intrinsic crisis tendencies of
> particular markets. But because they were dealt with as particular
> instances (not as elements of the general crisis), the broad
> consensus was to "reregulate" just slightly, in the wake of painful
> shakeouts, and in some cases to consolidate for yet another round of
> deregulation.
Yes, of course, Patrick. We agree. The fact, however, that "they were dealt
with as particular instances (not as elements of the general crisis)" sets the
line. What I mean is, more or less, as follows: the concrete historic
experience of a country where a besieged oligarchy, from the captured high
posts of command, wages a strong ideological battle against any attempt to
either "tame" (national bourgeois) or "kill" (socialist revolutionary) the
beast capitalism may provide arguments for the current struggle of First World
workers against capital.
It is not a matter of relative suffering. It is a matter of the completeness of
the struggle. What I pointed out was that, in Argentina at least (don't know if
elsewhere, though partly you can find similar situations in Brazil), the
ideologic struggle was waged as an essential struggle, not as a piecemeal
matter of restoring some broken parts of an otherwise normally functioning
machine. What was at stake was the whole system of power relations of the
oligarchic country, thus a deeper insight.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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