Opinion Sur
In a world that has concentrated decision-making power in a few hands, it is essential to strengthen genuinely democratic powers.
There are a dozen large corporations operating in the clouds with the ability to disproportionately influence most of the will in all latitudes. Large conglomerates in the Western world as well as in the Eastern world operate above national regulations. Their owners impose destructive trajectories with their power at the global and national level.
The concentrating process was consolidated in a few decades and is reproduced without being transformed. It raises an infinite number of conflicts of content and non-payment of taxes. Resounding cases have been the confrontation of the European Union with Google and Apple claiming tax evasion, and the conflict between the Brazilian Justice and the Government of Brazil with Elon Musk, the main owner of X. Many other cases occur around the world, affecting humanity and the planet without any consideration, generating tremendous inequalities, widespread poverty, and environmental destruction. It is a process that seems to have no limits as long as it is not confronted by firm democratic powers.
A challenge of enormous magnitude
Transforming the unbridled process of concentrating wealth and decision-making power is a major challenge that, however, needs to be addressed with the greatest skill and urgency. The fate of humanity as a whole is at stake. It is unacceptable that powerful minorities live in blatant opulence at the expense of the rest who suffer devastating consequences. It is necessary to strengthen democratic powers that ensure other paths, other courses for countries and the entire humanity. The risks to address are enormous. They imply covering the entire range of world action, on the one hand, dismantling the devastating global monopolies and, at the same time, designing and establishing in countries new socioeconomic systems that take care of their entire population. It is urgent to stop the crazy concentrating wave.
The economic policy measures that must be channeled are known, of course, avoiding to fall into rigid recipes without respecting the political and social singularities of each country. In previous editions of Opinion Sur, we have enunciated these perspectives. However, what is decisive is to strengthen democratic powers capable of guiding in new directions.
Solving social fragmentation
Those who profit from the concentration have demobilized the resistance of their victims both with the open or covert repression used without regards to and by stunning alienated wills. In this dissuasive action, they have fragmented societies, reinforcing differences, and inducing divisionism manipulated from power. There is a critical essential factor to solve.
Addressing the existing social fragmentation requires making its causes explicit, there are objective factors that can be removed by aligning interests and needs. On the side of divisive manipulation, it is necessary to clarify who induces confrontations, what objectives they pursue, how they penetrate the popular field and the consequences they generate.
Promoting convergences
In order to dismantle the concentrating process and enable new directions, it is imperative to establish firm democratic powers capable of successfully leading the transformation. Its basis of support makes it necessary to widely clarify what is happening, the forms of subjection imposed, and what other better options can be established.
If the population understood the conflicts of interests at stake and how small minorities are able to secure their privileges at the expense of others, new spaces of social convergence would emerge. On that path, it is time to work.
It is critical to choose leaders who represent the middle and popular sectors without giving up. There are more than a few politicians bought by dominant circles who discourse on one side and then act as ordered by their financiers. These scoundrels must be discarded.
The new leaderships will seek to converge dispersed social forces to strengthen the new democratic powers. It is a permanent job adapted to the characteristics of each moment and situation.
The organizational forms can be diverse, the important thing is to structure them to frame unions, self-employed workers, territorial associations, scientists and students, the plenum of the urban and rural popular economy. Each area with its leaders and the commitment to strengthen themselves as democratic powers of transformation.
Facing Concentration
A new course will require the establishment of social consortiums capable of confronting those who profit from the unbridled contemporary concentration. It is not only a matter of ideological antagonisms but of a hard struggle between antagonistic interests.
On the one hand, powerful minority groups erected as global helmspersons and, on the other, democratic powers that need to be strengthened to dismantle the concentrating process. A political confrontation with no room for doubt or uncertain agreements.
Establishing another global dynamic will need to be led by countries freed from the big groups operating in the clouds and their local accomplices. The new course and way of functioning must ensure the care of humanity and the planet, a permanent purpose that can adapt to constant changes in circumstances. A new international order that establishes peace and equity, a firm democratic action in direction and management, open to all voices.
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