The collateral victims of economic "progress"

For the owners of capital these collateral victims of economic "progress" would only have the right to exist as long as they are impregnated with the vision and interests of the dominant sectorsAs part of common sense and daily life, the illusory and deformed reality of individual material advantages-propitiated by the great ideological industry that highlights capitalist values-drives many people around the world to emigrate from their home countries in search of better and safer living conditions. This is seen year after year in the border that separates Europe from Africa or in which it separates the United States from our America, places where an infinity of situations commonly occurs that condemn immigrants (undocumented, for greater precision) to detention , deportation and, in the worst case, death without mourners, including children, as could be seen through the images disseminated globally in relation to the treatment of the children of immigrants held by the United States authorities. , being placed in cages as if they were animals.
This also proves the degree to which the mode of production -as a regime of production and reproduction of social life- has marked, as a burning iron, the mentality of many people (it can even be said that one hundred percent of humanity) , for which they strive to find a salaried job of better remuneration, apart from any other consideration that would suppose to divest themselves of the false conscience that they possess. This is accompanied by the behavior currently assumed by the State in many nations of the world by privileging the protection of the supreme interests of the large transnational corporations more than that of its own citizens, to whom it reserves a situation of repression and militarization in forecast of economic and political demands that harass their new role at the service of capital. Something, by the way, nothing exceptional, in view of its historical background, but now is fulfilled with a greater notoriety and self-confidence.
As extracted from the statement made by Zygmunt Bauman in the book 'Lives wasted. Modernity and its pariahs ',' refugees, displaced people, asylum seekers, migrants, without papers, are all the remnants of globalization. However, it is not the only waste thrown in increasing quantities in our times. There is also the 'traditional' industrial waste, which accompanied modern production from the beginning. Its destruction presents problems no less formidable than the elimination of human waste, increasingly horrifying, and for very similar reasons: the economic progress that spreads through the remotest corners of the 'saturated' planet, trampling in its path all the remaining forms of life alternatives to the consumer society ".

 For the owners of capital, these collateral victims of economic "progress", in a broad sense, would only have some right to exist as long as they are impregnated (and so they see it, without dissidence) of the vision and interests of the sectors dominant. This is what happens in different nations, including the peripheral ones, with people of all ages, wandering in the streets, without social attention. Thus, together with the serious effects of the depredation suffered year after year by nature worldwide, we must also consider the equivalent with respect to the people excluded by this "progress". In order to avoid its negative multiplication, the same socio-economic dynamic of the globalized capitalist system imposes the need to build new ways of living and understanding life, as well as new institutions based on a greater expression of democracy; all of which, taken together, would represent the opening of a new kind of society.