Re: From the horse's mouth

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a From the horse's mouth,
el 5 Feb 00, a las 12:44, Louis Proyect dijo:

> ?Rising unemployment was a very desirable way of reducing the strength
> of the working classes....  What was engineered--in a Marxist
> sense--was a crisis in capitalism which re-created a reserve army of
> labor, and has allowed the capitalists to make high profits ever
> since.? --Alan Bud, chief economic advisor to Margaret Thatcher
>
> The source is an article by Christian Parenti in The Baffler.


Excellent. Maybe Argentina was a testing ground for these policies.
"A crisis in capitalism which re-created a reserve army of labor".

Martínez de Hoz did EXACTLY that in 1976.  My only comment would be
that (I do not know if this was the English case) in Argentina,
further permanence of capitalism had become unsustainable UNLESS
industrial growth was redirected and afterwards curbed down. That is,
Argentinian capitalism WAS IN CRISIS before the re-creation of a
reserve army provided a way out of the crisis.

This was clearly sensed by our great artists. You have Leopoldo
Marechal, the democratic, patriotic, Peronist great novelist,
explaining in his (early 70s) _ Megafón o la guerra_  that Argentina
was like a snake: either we tore away the old skin, or either the old
skin would kill us by asphyxia.

Ernesto Sábato, who gave expression to our "progressive" middle
classes, foresaw the tragedy of 1976 and painted a horrible sky, with
an exterminating dragon extending from horizon to horizon, in the
night of the Buenos Aires of 1974/75.

"Rising unemployment" was desirable, yes...





Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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