Reflections

Regarding fiscal havens

Fiscal havens are not just criminal phenomena but in the last 30 years, they have also become the true motor of that globalization of finances initiated in the 80s. They have contributed to the generation of the economic crisis and citizens no longer trust the leaders that save the banks and their own interests but not those of their people. These places are true law havens: they are the way in which the elites subtract themselves from the legislations they so frequently have helped to promulgate. The key words are two: “escape” and “in another place.”

Nicholas Shaxson

 

Regarding counting on a plural and open communication that is not buried by the large media

The need to count on en effective communication that is not swept away or crushed by the dominance of large media is crucial to tackle any liberating endeavor in Latin America. The game of social media, discussion groups, or digital forums are significant instances but they offer an infinite field for the dispersion of the nonsense, and often for the instigation, or they focus on auto referential discussions that are boring or irritate those who come closer. We need to find a communicational structure that can be useful in the construction of a truly democratic political project. However, the plural and open communication cannot be reached if there is no constitutional norm that would impede the formation of monopolistic concentrations capable of burring or setting aside media that does not have the economic funding of their rivals.

Enrique Lacolla

 

 Regarding capitalism as a headless force that spreads unlimitedly.

Whatever the characterization of capitalism, in its neoliberal mutation, there is an imposing fact: its unlimited character. Capitalism behaves as a headless force that spreads unlimitedly until the last boundary of life. This is precisely what is novel about neoliberalism, the ability to produce subjectivities that are conformed according to the entrepreneurial, competitive, and managerial paradigm of the existence. The “systemic violence” of the neoliberal domination regime does not need an external oppressor, apart from crucial moments of organic crisis; it manages for the own subjects to be captured by a series of mandates and imperatives where subjects are confronted in their own life, in the way they are, in the demands of the “unlimited.”

Jorge Alemán