antisystemic elements - GUSTAVO CASTRO SOTO
antisystemic elements
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By Gustavo Castro Soto * Many expressions are revealed against the capitalist system that dominates us today and against its destructive consequences. But other worlds in various parts of our planet have managed to maintain for decades or centuries, resisting, sometimes silent, sometimes dying, sometimes surviving, sometimes resurrected. We need to save these other worlds that give hope that they can vivir sin el capitalismo.
La situación de pobreza, miseria, hambre, migración, feminicidios, guerras, cambio climático y destrucción medioambiental, entre otros indicadores graves que se van agudizando y que vivimos en nuestro planeta, fruto del sistema que actualmente impera, nos hace pensar que otros mundos son posibles. Que deben existir otras alternativas donde todos los mundos quepan, donde la humanidad pueda vivir en plenitud, dignidad y felicidad. Muchas expresiones se revelan frente al Sistema Capitalista que hoy nos domina y en contra sus consecuencias destructivas. Pero también otros mundos en diversas partes de nuestro planeta se han logrado mantener por décadas o siglos, resistiendo, a veces Silent, sometimes dying, sometimes surviving, sometimes resurrected. We need to save these other worlds that give hope that they can live without capitalism. But we also need to rescue the various expressions that rebel against this system and want to poke and alternative possible worlds.
But what does it mean that something or someone is anti-systemic? To do this we must discover and be aware of what the capitalist system. And then we will know who is anti-systemic, systemic anti what, who generates a systemic anti experience.
What is Capitalism? It is a political, social, economic and military dominated private property and capital as factor of production and wealth generation. Among his theoretical elements is self-interest and freedom of companies (to find the largest accumulation of capital), worker (to seek the highest salary) and consumer (to find the best price). The competition is between the offers, demands, and between them that the market regulates prices of goods and services. Capitalism has inherent contradictions that cause cyclical crisis. Throughout history has had various models or ways of being pre-processes model transition. Its inner logic of capital accumulation leads to its own destruction. Far from exhausting the subject, we make a brief account of the ways or models you have had this system. Model
Liberal (1840-1945) emphasized the individual freedom of enterprise, trade, decide what and how to produce, competition and private property rights guaranteed by the state. Industrial capitalism was promoted to the invention of the machine and its incorporation into production. Liberalism rejected mercantilism (State driver of economic progress of a nation) and that the State did not impose limits on the kind and amount of profit they generate conditions (infrastructure) to enable private entrepreneurs to obtain higher profits. The economy would be governed by an 'invisible hand' where free competition and movement of supply and demand regulate the economy. Liberalism meant greater exploitation for workers. Its antithesis: Marxism. This model is in crisis with the First and Second World War (1914-1945).
Neoliberal Model (1970-2000) Once built, the state apparatus, their economies and infrastructure, and under the pressure of debt generated by international financial institutions (IFI's) to poor countries and in developing the transnational capital is released for control of the economy. The State should be reduced and opened again to Economic liberalism, which strengthens the endogenous accumulation of capitalism and poor getting poorer and rich few get richer. The state intervenes to increase investment demand and avoiding the cyclical downturns. Only the legal charge to ensure certain civil liberties, control of internal security through the armed forces in conjunction with the police, the implementation of policies necessary for the functioning of markets and respect for private property. In the decade of the '90s is in crisis to give rise to the next model.
Corporation-National Model (2000 -?) The commodification of everything exists on the planet under private ownership by the large transnational corporations began to cohere from Siglo XXI. Features include: monopolization, mergers and acquisitions across sectors, have their own labor, wage and health above the national governments have diplomatic relations with governments, have their management structures that ensure their status interests, develop their own values, identity, culture, clubs, family associations, symbols and hymns that convey their ways of thinking and living. Move their capital, supplies, technicians and specialists in the border unhindered. Have their own security, private police, infrastructure, power plants and controlled territory. Developed trade rules in the FTAs \u200b\u200band form their own international tribunals to defend their interests above the interests of the countries. Budget with more nations of the planet and ensure a safe investment. Have plagiarized the human rights language for inclusion in the defense of their interests. Control of their goods by other governments call it discrimination and blockade of the South "protecting their interests" subsidies to others call it "unfair to them as they increase, the impairment of investments ecologically damaging violation call him the "freedom of investment." Are taking over the strategic resources of other countries such as oil and other mineral resources, water, gas, timber, biodiversity and genetic material, oxygen, sea, air space and land. For them the role of governments is to protect their interests.
Circuit. The capitalist system implements the circuit that accelerates the accumulation of capital in large private monopolies. Has 7 elements: 1) Main Subject (transnational corporations and finance capital) who benefits and who are targeted in the accumulation of wealth. 2) Allies major are the most powerful governments (G-7) who in turn use a 3) Instrument fundamental (IFI's) to generate a 4) Mechanism of control and dependence (Debt) resulting in poor countries to implement 5) Policies (SAPs SAPs) to ensure such accumulation. This process takes about several 6) scenarios that holding legalize taxation under 7) correlation of forces favorable (WTO, World Economic Forum in Davos, FTAs, FTAA, APEC, PPP, IIRSA, etc.). This economic plan is accompanied by a military structure that ensures the evident lack of global consensus.
The crisis capitalism.
The global crisis of capitalism deepens when you start the twenty-first century the world is prepared to travel to another world system. The indicators of this crisis are economic, political, social and environmental: the alleged crisis of the great democracies to serve transnational capital, economic stagnation and stagflation, deepening and expansion of poverty, hunger and death, accumulation of wealth in few hand, increased mobilization of worldwide protests and repression, environmental impact with this system that makes life unsustainable planet.
The capitalist system will have a beginning and an end. The principle of 'movement' invades not only biological life and social policy but which prevents nothing remains but that life static flow. This means that we have not reached the end of history or a system or system model and perennial final.
Among the key elements inherent, intrinsic, and without which the capitalist system could not function, are:
1) Competition. Culture, discourse and practice that feeds the anger and frustration, the winner and loser. This "natural selection capitalist causes few winners are rewarded for the benefits of the system.
2) accumulation of capital. The capitalist system creates its own accumulation patterns as well as a structure that will ensure this process. Banks, law, interests, ownership of surpluses, and so on., Lead to this accumulation.
3) Homogenization. For capitalism is needed that accumulation patterns are grounded in norms, standards and policy standardization, economic and cultural conditions that promote and facilitate the accumulation.
4) employer-worker relationship. One owner and workers do not own the means to produce but only of its workforce.
5) Patriarchal. Capitalism can not exist without the relationship of gender dominance of men over women exploited through feminization of capital to ensure accumulation.
6) Speculation. The accumulation of capital property on speculation rather than producing a decent life which need to be happy.
7) Antidemocracy. Capitalism responds to the competing interests of a few that are imposed on the interests of the majority.
8) Indebted. As a basic principle of accumulation and dependence, capitalism is inherently endeudante.
9) Impoverishment. Competition creates losers who have no access to capital and whose tendency is to increase the accumulation in a few hands and the generation of large numbers of losers.
10) Racism. Capitalism is inherently racist who seeks power privileges some over others.
11) Ecocide. Capitalism leads to environmental destruction by unbridled consumerism of raw materials to the appropriation and accumulation of wealth.
12) Monopoly. Unruly result of fierce competition and the elimination of economic adversary.
13) Farm. There is no accumulation of capital without the holding without sharing the benefits of development benefits between rich and poor, north and south and global north global south.
14) Consumerism. Predominantly consumed by consumption in a race without order and without considering the real needs. The excessive consumption of what is produced regardless of need generates the accumulation of wealth.
15) Private. The appropriation of financial, human, social, political and environmental, is founded on the private property against the public and social.
16) Unit. The accumulation of capital property on the dependence on each other in political, social, cultural, economic and environmental. These two poles can not live without each other, their tendency is to gradually increase the distance between them.
17) War. The war tax is a form system and inherent you always will find expressions of discontent and lack of consensus during the process of accumulation. Systemic anti
Elements of other worlds.
When we speak of a systemic anti experience we refer to the discourse and practice together in an individual or social group with different characteristics or diametrically opposed to feeding the capitalist system.
expressions and systemic anti experiences have always existed. A more or less impact, with varying degrees of social presence, with a longer duration or less than historical. However, they failed to form a hegemonic system that globalize the rules of life of all mankind, as it has done the capitalist system because they are not its essence but diversity. Interestingly remaining non-capitalist worlds are among various indigenous cultures of the world, and alternatives are emerging antisystemic usually in rural areas or among the population excluded from the supposed benefits of the current key. The care they receive some benefit that this interest is maintained, to perpetuate and enhance it, making it difficult to find expressions systemic anti between this sector of the population, but rather expressions of reformist arguments of "humanization" of capitalism, capital human, etc.
Other capitalist worlds enduring and emerging systemic anti alternatives will have to undergo several of these characteristics. The more features will undergo more anti-systemic and therefore more drawn an alternative to capitalism:
1) Participation. Capitalist competition against the population participates actively and creatively to build a world without the expense of others left behind on the road.
2) Distribution. Contrary to accumulation. The world divides the excess, surplus. No one builds up and the value of sharing and stands in contrast to the accumulating value. The rich man has no place in this world-system. The goods reach to all: water, land, food, etc..
3) Diversity. Contrary to homogenization complements and enriches diversity, cultural biodiversity and feeds the worlds diversity unites and separates us.
4) Collective. Contrary to the relationship owner and dispossessed, the draft of the collective world. There is no pattern. There are equal.
5) gender perspective. Contrary to the patriarchal system, is a scientific, analytical and policy on women and men. Eliminate the causes of gender oppression (inequality, injustice and the ranking of individuals based on gender.) Promote gender equality through equity, the advancement and welfare of women, contributes to building a society where women and men have equal value, equal rights and opportunities to access economic resources and political representation and social in the areas of decision making.
6) Needs. Contrary to speculation, the real needs make the production and reproduction of life.
7) Democracy. No totalitarian impositions wills or decrees to impose few, informed and active participation building the future and dignity.
8) Solidarity. There are no dues to pay, there to express solidarity.
9) For everyone, everything. Unlike the impoverishment of the majority and the enrichment of many, material wealth, cultural and any kind enough to everyone, is all.
10) Equality. Unlike racism and the privileges it generates, expressed and lived relations of equality in rights but also collective obligations.
11) Green. Contrary to ecocide, respect nature and live in harmony with it.
makes use reasonable and sustainable.
12) Sovereignty. Contrary to the monopoly control over the property, the ability to define for himself the course and the way you want to take to live fully.
13) Equity. Unlike the operation, relations and welfare of each is at the expense of suffering, hunger and poverty of others.
14) fairness. No need to create artificial needs that consume disproportionately the system, you use what you need with fairness.
15) Public. Do not make everything you see and find on private property, but ensures the benefit of all.
16) Autonomy. Without parasitic dependence but unity in diversity of views and eigenmodes of self and freedom.
17) Peace. Contrary to the war that nourishes life and the economy, diversity, autonomy, sovereignty as synonyms peace, which is not understood as the mere absence of armed conflict or bullets or merely peace while there is still hunger and institutionalized violence, but peace with justice, fairness and happiness for all.
19) Vision policy. Clear awareness of wanting to live and express different worlds of capitalism.
20) Human Rights. Where every human being, happiness and fulfillment, is the focus of political project. Not as a gift or gift, but as essential elements for living that fullness. Not merely a right but an obligation that binds society.
total lack of consistency in the application of these characteristics does not invalidate the systemic anti experience. We are on the understanding that it is a process for building alternatives that other worlds are possible. Therefore you can not live a genetic mutation sociopolitical immediately, spontaneous and radically different from the hegemonic capitalist system, but as part of a detachment of the old skin to cover other alternative. This transition therefore implies inconsistencies, contradictions, but with an directionality through the origin and evolution to give birth other worlds.
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