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Ànima…
Ànima
Font: El chiste de MEL
Antisistema
Antisistema
Font: El País – El Roto.
Good Capitalist Karma – Slavoj Zizek
Font: RSA i OpenCulture
Privatitzacions i mortalitat
The Lancet recull un article que relaciona les privatitzacions massives amb l’augment de la mortalitat en els països ex-comunistes. No és el primer estudi que relaciona privatitzacions i deteriorament de la qualitat de vida i/o augment de la mortalitat, però convé recordar-ho quan en aquests temps de crisi ens diuen que no hi haurí diners per a sanitat, pensions, etc.
Via: Gara
Elements fonamentals per entendre el funcionament del capitalisme i les crisis
Aquests text ha estat preparat per a formar part dels materials de suport del curs “La crisi en el capitalisme actual” organitzat pel seminari d’economia crítica Taifa.
El capitalisme i les crisis
Malgrat sembla que visquem temps extraordinaris això de la crisi no es nou en el capitalisme. De fet, com anirem veient al llarg del curs, les crisis són recurrents en el capitalisme. Es a dir, crisis n’hi ha hagut sempre en la història del capitalisme i n’hi continuarí havent mentre continuï existint el sistema capitalista. Fent una mica de memòria, tothom ha sentit a palar de la crisi de 1929 (o el crack de 1929) o mes recentment de la crisi del sud-est asií tic (1997) o de l’explosió de la bombolla de les noves tecnologies als EEUU (2000).
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“La internacionalización de la producción que, en el régimen capitalista toma necesariamente la forma de una concentración y de una centralización internacionales del capital cada vez más avanzadas, contrarresta cada vez más los intentos de los estados imperalistas “nacionales” de aplicar con éxito una política anticíclica cuyo alcance sigue limitándose, en lo social, a las fronteras nacionales.”
La plena libertad para aquellos cuyos ingresos, ocio y seguridad no necesitan ser incrementados y una miseria de libertad para el pueblo, que en vano puede intentar hacer uso de sus derechos democráticos para resguardarse del poder de los dueños de la propiedad.
The rise of advocacy groups and NGOs has, like rights discourses more generally, accompanied the neoliberal turn and increased spectacularly since 1980 or so. The NGOs have in many instances stepped into the vacuum in social provision left by the Withdrawal of the state from such activities. This amounts to privatization by NGO. In some instances this has helped accelerate further state withdrawal from social provision. NGOs thereby function as ‘Trojan horses for global neoliberalism’. Furthermore, NGOs are not inherently democratic institutions. They tend to be elitist, unaccountable (except to their donors), and by definition distant from those they seek to protect or help, no matter how wellmeaning or progressive they may be. They frequently conceal their agendas, and prefer direct negotiation with or influence over state and class power. They often control their clientele rather than represent it. They claim and presume to speak on behalf of
those who cannot speak for themselves, even define the interests of those they speak for (as if people are unable to do this for themselves). But the legitimacy of their status is always open to doubt.
Vegeu també: T. Wallace, “NGO Dilemas. Trojan horses for global neoliberalism?”, Socialist Register, London, Merlin Press, 2003, pp.202-219
To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount and use of purchasing power, would result in the demolition of Society. For the alleged commodity ‘labour power’ cannot be shoved about, used indiscriminately, or even left unused, without affecting also the human individual who happens to be the bearer of this peculiar commodity. In disposing of man’s labour power the system would, incidentally, dispose of the physical, psychological, and moral entity ‘man’ attached to that tag. Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the effects of social exposure; they would die as victims of acute social dislocation through vice, perversion, crime and starvation.
Nature would be reduced to its elements, neighborhoods and landscapes defiled, rivers polluted, military safety jeopardized, the power to produce food and raw materials destroyed. Finally, the market administration of purchasing power would periodically liquidate business enterprise, for shortages and surfeits of money would prove as disastrous to business as floods and droughts In primitive Society.