RE: Three paragraphs which condense it all

["Michael Keaney" <Michael.Keaney@xxxxxx>]

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From: Gorojovsky [mailto:Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 22. lokakuuta 2001 17:35
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Subject: Three paragraphs which condense it all


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On May 1st., 1974, Perón delivered his last Presidential address to the 
Chambers. During this speech, he established which were his goals and
the 
objectives that he set to his third term in government (unfortunately he
was to 
die in a couple of months). In the afternoon, his speech to the masses
at Plaza 
de Mayo had to be radically changed in view of the petty bourgeois
provocation 
led by the Montoneros, so that it has little material of interest for
those 
interested in understanding the kernel of Peronism.

But these three paragraphs, extracted from his most interesting address
to the 
Chambers, explains why the 1976 coup took place, and why can, say, Fidel
resort 
to foreign capital and market measures without abandoning revolution.  

This aging bourgeois General, whose Movement was melting beneath his
feet, was 
still decades ahead of many self-appointed Marxists who still believed
that 
there was no difference between Henry Ford IV and the repair shop around
the 
corner because both exploit wage earners.

These three paragraphs are all that "globalisation" is against. I have
made a 
fast translation, so that some hue may be wrongly placed. But read them
and you 
will see how simple the whole thing is...

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THE ROLE OF FOREIGN CAPITAL

Argentina has always been an open country for foreign participation; so
shall 
we remain, but it is indispensable to discipline such participation, 
establishing where it can exist, and the role that it will have to
fulfill in 
our social, political and economic life.

No country is really free if it does not fully exert its right to make 
decissions regarding the exploitation, use and marketing of its
resources, and 
regarding the employment of its productive factors. This is why it is
necessary 
to define the rules of the game for the participation of foreign
capital.  Once 
these have been defined, we must ensure their stability and, basically,
make 
sure that they will be followed.

Economic progress will depend on our own effort only; thus, foreign
capital 
will have to be understood as complementary and not as a determining and

irreplaceable factor in our development.

Juan Perón to the Argentinean Chambers, May 1st. 1974

[The answer came on March 24, 1976. The above was unacceptable.]

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx