Development

The concentration process is being consolidated in main financial circuits but it also leaks into all the subordinated spaces in which it can increase the extraction of value. Against this …

Adjustments imposed onto so many countries do not solve but rather magnify the extremely serious problems generated by the unbridled process of concentration of wealth and decisional power that prevails in the world. On the contrary, efforts should be oriented towards dismounting that process. What options exist?

Faced with crises that dominant sectors generated, or at least, seriously enlarged, their political representatives with hypocrisy and ignominy call on society to share the recovery and development effort. While they ask the people to accept sacrifices to generate a virtuous future together, they keep on with the capital flight towards tax havens and impose rescue plans and economic and cultural policies to protect their privileges and businesses.

Far from being an enclosed fence to corner the poor or marginalized, popular economy is one of the founding pillars of a new course and way of functioning to replace the ignominious concentrating growth that punishes general wellbeing and the protection of the environment.

Domination and submission have existed since ancient times with phases of impious savagery and others more moderate. Domination is transformed with time and change of circumstances, but a few times it has been fully eliminated. Is this unavoidable? Is there a way to break that terrible historical trajectory, especially during this phase of the so-called “capitalist realism” that, as always, presents itself as eternal and unmovable? There are those who believe that what is presented as impossible can become possible.