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Notícies :: globalització neoliberal |
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A Plea for Combined Strategies
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per Wilfredo Gutiérrez
Correu-e: bwg2001@hotmail.com (no verificat!) |
23 ago 2003
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COMBATING BOTH THE MEANS AND THE ENDS OF THE BEAST |
I share many of the backing arguments accompanying the proposal of “A Plea for Systemic Strategies� by “We, The People.� [See mexico.indymedia.org; see also montreal.indymedia.org]. By “backing arguments,� I mean those that the author has used to support his/her proposal of an attack to “the dollar� as the source of the system, or the “dangerous weapon of the rich against the poor.�
I have no trouble in understanding the meanings of these backing arguments. As you say, for example, that (a) “we must liberate our minds from the oppressive ideologies;� (b) the need “to redirect the unfocussed angst of the unemployed, the prisoners and those on parole, the rebellious youth, the oppressed minorities, the poor, the wage slaves, the homeless and disenfranchised, the beaten and abused;� (c) that capitalism is “an enemy of humanity;� and (d) “the root evils.� I also agree with your perception of failure of some grassroots organizations that have ended their goals and actions “playing the system.�
As to the proposal itself, I am not sure if I can appreciate all of its latitude. I agree that the dollar, as you say, is “a cruel instrument of oppression� of the rich against the poor. But only that: “an instrument.� If the dollar is an instrument or a weapon, then I fail to see its “systemic� nature, since instruments are means or mechanisms to achieve certain ends or purposes. Would you agree if this instrument were in the hands of the poor, instead of those of the rich? Probably, yes. But some people would argue that a genuine solution to social injustices could not depend on a “circulation of élites� in the power, unless the new élites RADICALLY CHANGE THEIR WORLDVIEWS. Otherwise, the world would eventually end again in a new kind of social inequality.
Why don’t we target the SYSTEM OF IDEOLOGICAL VALUES of the beast, TOO? I am talking about the structures of psychological power of the beast that ideologically control the monetary instruments against the poor. Notice that I use the word “TOO� in the question because I don’t discard the merits of alternatives concentrating on the destruction of the instrument. But I am more inclined to think about the need of COMBINED STRUGGLES, since I believe that an attack to the instruments and an attack to the system of values are not incompatible strategies unable to visualize and advance together towards the same end.
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