From a great crisis to a worse one: the global rebellion advances

 

 From a great crisis to a worse one: the global rebellion advances

 x Narciso Isa Conde: What the tycoons and ideologues of the system did not have, is what has caused this neoliberal restructuring and aggressiveness 

 The structural crisis of world capitalism at the end of the 20th century, whose first symptoms were expressed at the beginning of the 1970s, gave rise to a process of restructuring of the dominant system in different aspects: in its technical and scientific bases, in its ideology , in its managerial forms, in its organization, in the center-periphery relations and in its levels of transnationalization or internationalization. This process has deepened in the context of the current COVID 19 pandemic.

 It was another crisis of overproduction, accompanied by a significant reduction in the profits of the large consortiums, prospects for the depletion of their own sources of energy (strategic minerals, water, biodiversity, widespread unemployment, large migratory flows from different countries). del Sur and other alarming symptoms. 

THE RECIPES IMPOSED: 

 

 From the beginning of this restructuring, the great centers of imperialist power proposed:

 Introduce transcendent changes in the techno-scientific accumulation pattern, in organizational systems and managerial mechanisms, seeking to increase the productivity and speculative capacity of financial capital through the large-scale incorporation of micro-electronics, cybernetics, robotics and other cutting-edge technologies.

 Fully take over the national markets of the “medium and low developed” countries through free trade areas. Increase their transnational business power (highly concentrated) through the privatization of public companies of goods and services, and of natural resources of greater value and interest to prolong their wasteful consumer model. 

 Progressively eliminate the gains and social benefits of workers and peoples in terms of wage policies, collective bargaining, social security, sports, housing, health, education, entertainment, transportation, protection of children and the elderly … Attack, consequently, any expression of justice in the distribution of income, in property relations, in the role of “benefactor”, protector or redistributor of the Nation-State. 

Remodel and empower all functional oppressions to capitalism (patriarchal rule, racism, adult-centrism, ecocide and colonialism) related to a perverse rationality consisting of profit-making and capital accumulation regardless of tragic consequences. Rehabilitate and renew the military policies of conquest and reconquest of valuable natural resources and areas of great geopolitical and economic value in all cases where it is difficult in another way.

 Promote the internationalization of big capital and its corporations, accelerating the processes of formation of large markets under its control, expanding large transnational business networks, creating a powerful communication apparatus, precipitating the decline of nation-states on the periphery of large companies. capitalist centers, and strengthening the role of supranational mechanisms under their control (corporate forums, IMF, WB, Group of Eight, WTO, UN Council, NATO, Southern Command, judicial and police instances ...) And this they have called globalization.

 Concomitantly raise the control and power of the mass media, accentuate its process of concentration in favor of the transnationals of the branch and financial capital, advance rapidly towards a kind of media dictatorship that promotes the anti-values ​​of big capital and unlimited competitiveness in all aspects of life in society. Restructure its ideology, rescuing and hardening the so-called neoliberalism, really neo-conservatism, given its usefulness and functional character to this process of recomposition of the system. 

 All this was facilitated in the final stretch of the twentieth century by the collapse of the states of the so-called real socialism and by the disintegration of the USSR, consequence of a great structural crisis of bureaucratic statism, not only simultaneous to the multi-crisis of capitalism, but also fueled by him. 

Likewise, these recipes continue to be applied and deepened in the new phases of this prolonged and destructive deterioration. Even the effects of the worsening health crisis are operating as more drastic economic adjustments than those previously imposed through the IMF and the World Bank; while the leading elites of big capital decide to obtain super-profits and complete processes of privatization, recolonization and assault on public assets, natural resources and executive instances of the State, relaunching PPPs public-private alliances.

THE RESULTS:

 Thus, the conservative counterrevolution imposed its hegemony on a large scale in the first phase with the illusion of a unipolar world and an irreversible dominance that has not taken long to fade in the midst of a worsening of its crisis of decadence, deployed before and during COVID 19; in which context the mega-capitalist elites reshape their roles amid strong internal fractures, challenges from emerging powers, popular insubordination, and the decline of the US as a once absolutely hegemonic power.

 From all this, a more modern capitalism and imperialism have resulted in their areas of great accumulation, but at the same time more barbarous, exclusive and brutal with respect to the great majority of humanity; highly financialized, pentagonized, speculative and gangsterized; helped, among other factors, by the volatility that information technology gives to bank capital and all its mechanisms of accumulation, repressive control and alienation. And, consequently, it has determined the enthronement of a more concentrated and brutal, militarized, globalized and violent system of domination. 

Current imperialism is operating as a privatizing and commercializing factor of everything state and social, including the exercise of politics; and as a desperate aggressive power in a phase of decomposition of power.

 But what the tycoons and ideologues of the system did not have is what has caused this neoliberal restructuring and aggressiveness.

 It would seem that they did not think that the recipes to get out of that structural crisis would generate a crisis of a new type, different and worse than all the previous ones, which would end up weakening parts of their strengths. 

 A multiple crisis: economic, social, environmental, political-institutional, urban, moral, military ... with characteristics of an integral crisis of decadence of bourgeois civilization; while putting the existence of the planet and humanity at risk, which generates multiple rebellions in return.

 THE COUNTERPARTY IS ACTIVATED: THE TREND FOR THE INSUMISSION OF THE PEOPLES ADVANCES.

 In turn, the massive impoverishment of human beings and nature, the insecurity of life, the devastating environmental crisis, the increased suffering, the wars unleashed, the level of the moral crisis, the rise of lies and State crime, abuses against the heritage and cultural diversity, the crushing of national identities and discrimination by gender, race and age ... have given rise to growing resistance and a counterpart of struggles and rebellions with deep anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist potentialities, and marked tendencies towards the global insurgency; although still with serious deficits in the formation of transformative and vanguard forces that make it possible to articulate rebellions and create alternative powers.

 In Latin America and the Caribbean this has been transformed into a new, intense and rugged wave of changes towards the new independence, faced with a fierce imperialist counteroffensive.

 In the context of a great historical cycle of struggles, this wave of changes is the first deployed in this 21st century and the fourth unleashed in the last 50 years of the 20th century: 1-Cuban Revolution and its surroundings, including April 65 in the Dominican Republic and torrijista process in Panama. 2-Rise of the struggles in the Southern Cone and victory of the Popular Unity in Chile. 3-Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua and Central American, Salvadoran and Guatemalan insurgencies. 4-Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela with its expansive waves towards South and Central America (Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil…).

 This fourth wave, even with many recurrent setbacks and advances, looks increasingly difficult to crush and / or contain, both by political means and by military means.

 The survival of self-determination and transformative projects of different calibers in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia ... the overwhelming victory of the constituent process in Chile, the extraordinary and recurrent political-social rebellions in Colombia, Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, Puerto Rico ... mark trends within the ups and downs and deficits of the continental process. It is the prologue of the most radical and far-reaching changes.

 26-5-2021 // Santo Domingo, RD.