Reflections

Regarding a despotic arrogance

With what indignation have I seen, in a day of national strike, the police with despotic arrogance throwing down the food that some workers were preparing in their soup kitchens? Therefore, I ask, in what type of society do we live in, which democracy we have that the corrupt live in impunity and the hunger of the people is considered subversive.

Ernesto Sábato

 

Regarding democracy and ideology of “making money”

The ideology of “making money,” of winning at any cost, is putting the universal value of democracy at risk. Now it seems that we cannot win elections without corruption and democracy seems not to function without corruption.

Branko Milanovic

 

Regarding the ability of capitalism to absorb any object with which it gets in contact

When it finally arrives, capitalism produces a mass demystification of the entire culture. It is such a system that no transcendental Law governs; on the contrary, it is a system that dismantles the codes of all the laws, just to reinstate them ad hoc. No sovereign fiat (consent or mandate) sets the limits for capitalism, which, rather, define and redefine themselves in a pragmatic manner along the way. That is the reason why capitalism is an endless plastic entity, capable of metabolizing and absorbing whatever object with which it gets in contact.

Mark Fisher