What other world is possible?

[=?unknown?q?Jo=E3o?= Paulo Monteiro <jpmonteiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ due to length, posted to web site below ]


What other world is possible?

- a rallying call for communists within the alter-globalization movement

Ângelo Novo (*)

The two last decades of the XXth century have constituted, one may
already assume without much risk, one of the darkest eras of reaction
in the history of capitalism. To the expansionist period of the
immediate postwar, with its social democrat compromise, followed
stagnation and structural crisis from the beginnings of the decade of
70 on. For the bourgeoisie, the restoration of more comfortable
margins of profit was imposed with urgency, or the reproduction of the
system could be at risk. Therefore the general and continued assault
launched by great capital, symbolically inaugurated by the pair
Reagan/Thatcher (with the important precedent of Pinochet?s Chile,
assisted by the school of Chicago) which continues even today, on its
essential lines. The workers? organizations with some remains of
combativity have been jammed, dispersed or neutralized, opening the
way to a generalized regression of labor incomes. The notion of
res-publica was mocked and , confiding an age of looting, pilfering
and systematic parasitagem of the collective patrimony, glorifying the
spirit of who is saved will be able. The armaments race was sped
up. The whole is composed with prescriptions of the purest liberal
orthodoxy: opening to external investment, competitive exchange rates,
lower taxes (particularly for the highest levels of income),
desmantling of the public apparatus of social welfare, opening and
liberalization of the financial markets, deregulation of the economic
activities, etc..

full at: http://www.marxmail.org/other-possible-world.html




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