Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution

["Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution,
el 22 Dec 01, a las 7:40, Chris Burford dijo:

> This is not a revolution.
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> Chris Burford
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> London
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Certainly not. It is more important than that. Burford (and many like him) love
to point out from the core of the system (and for an Argentinean, to see
someone deciding whether our movements are revolutions or not is, er, more than
slightly outrageous) the frailties of the actual movements in the periphery.

Burford et al.: What we have done in Argentina is simply to defreeze history,
to put in the center of the political debate the political and economic
dependency of Argentina. We have opened up a window and a strong wind blew away
all and each colonialist tenet. Nobody cares any more of what would the IMF say
or think about us. Argentina has forced herself to think about a future with a
sound economic structure, again.

This is a Copernican revolution, not simply a "revolution".  History has just
been put in motion again. Probably this is uncomfortable for many, who prefer
to say that this is not a "revolution". No. It was simply people in the
streets, facing the troops -intellectual as well as material- of imperialism
and our local sepoys.

No foreign owned public utility has uttered a word against the propositions
that have been aired immediately after the "non-revolution" in the sense that
they should be taxed with special contributions. No neo-liberal economist has
been able to give an opinion without public booing. No bank has even dared to
insist that we dollarize our economy. People have not said "this is what we
want", people have said "this is what we do not want any more".

Not enough, of course. Never is enough.

Bullshit

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx