Opinion Sur
In this issue, we try to link critical dimensions of contemporary reality. We start addressing one of the “impossible” that the dominators impose to demobilize wills. We can, we know, we want not only to reduce but to eliminate poverty and indigence altogether. How can it not be possible to eliminate that opprobrium that grips humanity when it is the clamor of billions of people in the world and there are the resources, talent, technology, to achieve it. All that is lacking is determination.
At the geopolitical level, we point out that in the face of survival difficulties generated by fearsome wars, pandemics, environmental destruction, social fragmentation, it is essential to urgently and radically rethink the assumptions that guide collective action. It is nothing less than preserving the indivisible natural, social, and cultural heritage of humanity, managing it in a coordinated and collective manner. But we will have to rush the times because risks and threats are piling up.
In the case of Brazil, a country of strategic importance for the world and the region, we recall that when it became independent, the same relations of the colonial period were maintained between the masters of the Casa Grande and the slaves cornered in their neighborhoods. Independence was achieved within the framework of slavery, which was brutal and cruel to millions of people brought from Africa and enslaved throughout America. That is why it is affirmed that it is an independence called to be completed.
These processes, indeed all processes, are not linear nor do they develop free of contradictions and antagonisms. This applies to neoliberal or totalitarian processes, but beware, democratic processes are not exempt from contradictions and antagonisms either. This reality forces us to tackle critical challenges, such as a permanent clarification and organization of the social base, to work solid innovative political coalitions aligning interests that can complement each other, to arrive to essential agreements for the collective future between always occasional ruling parties and oppositions. Nothing simple but possible, even if you have to navigate in waters muddied with pettiness and greed, confusion and blindness.
Some ask where are the compasses, where are the captains? The orientation emerges from collective experience and from the referential utopias that we would be able to establish. There is also no lack of enlightened leadership; breaking communication monopolies that hide them can be identified and accompanied ensuring that they will always maintain their loyalty to those they represent.
Greetings,
The Editors
