[Marxism] Social gains torched

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2"
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Con fecha:1 Dec 2005, a las 10:05

> Eastern Europe isn't the only part of teh world where the victory of
> neo-liberalism has led to the social gains of previous decades being
> torched. It also happened in Indonesia and in Argentina, for example.

Can't speak of Indonesia.  

In Argentina, however, what has been torched is not just social 
gains. Economic independence fell before.  In fact, already in 1976 
the destruction of the local manufacturing sector was an objective of 
policy.  The idea was to weaken the working class even if it was 
necessary to torch the manufacturing sector to attain that Paradise.

In the 90s, thins were still worse:  any section of the structure of 
material production that did not fit the necessities of the global 
oligarchy were -to the letter- either razed to the ground, given away 
to rot and decay, downsized to midget scale, etc.  

Salvador Treber, an interesting economist of Córdoba, Argentina, has 
made the numbers and came to the conclusion that the degree of 
destruction of the social and material structures of production in 
Argentina can only be equated with what took place in the fSU.

In the end, this is all that the Cold War was about.  Once the 
Russian kernel of resistence foundered (and when I say this I am 
talking about _objective_ situations, not of what the fSU _actually_ 
perceived, did, or wanted to do), the whole chain of resistence to 
imperialist reorganization à la 1912 ("globalization") was torn down, 
most particularly in its weaker links such as Argentina after 15 
years of neoliberalism (which began in 1976) and a military defeat 
against an imperialist coalition in 1982.

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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