(en) Anarkio.net: Neoliberalism Real Plan after 19 years (pt)

Designed from the same pattern of stabilization and adjustment programs used in Latin 
America inspired neoliberalism (see on liberalism) in the 80s. Creatively designed and 
innovations such as the indexation of the economy through the URV (Real Value Unit), 
stabilization was based on the link between increased imports and accelerated absorption 
of external resources. The base currency (anchor) has been at the core of policy and 
remains today one associated with the monetary policy of high interest rates. Maintained 
exalted and untouchable even by the opposition PSDB administrations of Fernando Henrique 
(two governments of former trade unionist Luis Ignacio da Silva, aka Lula and Dilma Russef 
that is current, all PT), the speeches of all administrations post-Real are fighting 
inflation, income distribution and production modernization of the country, while reducing 
the severity of mismatches major economic and social costs that remain accumulated in 
these two decades.

The stabilization strategy used was based on the proposed agenda called Washington 
Consensus, that is, full trade liberalization, deregulation of the economy, unrestricted 
recognition patent, privatization, minimal state disarming the mechanism to support growth 
and economic regulation, flexible labor rights always oriented to establish the absolute 
primacy of the market. This process was accompanied by ideological advance of the 
inevitability of "reform", "modernization" and "globalization", parts of a unification of 
thought around the market rationality.

The government options, keeping within the economic logic inaugurated by the Fernando 
Collor de Mello, the introduction of the subaltern Brazil international instability 
represented a milestone end of the cycle considered stagnation with high inflation rates, 
a currency crisis under constant pressure of external indebtedness and depletion of the 
development model inspired by import substitution. On the political scene was the end of 
the long transition from military to pseudo-democratic regime, full of corruption 
scandals, the weakening of the state and rigging for all managements to date. At the same 
time it has great social movements that are systematically demobilized or coopted by 
managements, removing any radical critique proposals that would lead to emancipation more 
than necessary in this maelstrom of power and maintenance of social inequalities, despite 
all the billions spent on palliative and assistencialismos advertisements exaggerated the 
supposed efficiency of the administrations in power.

Past 19 years, is consolidated neoliberalism, which many pointed as late, and held, 
ironically, by managements that openly criticized the plan and its creators. Part of the 
institutional left not only surrendered to the plan, but as adapted and used, as well as 
all the techniques and strategies of control, corruption inherent in the model, giving a 
lesson to the whole society of immorality. The institutional left, became the party even 
if both attacked: an image of the same right as much opposed.

The changes incorporated by the neoliberal agenda after 19 years, followed the 
international market and the impact that technological model has become a key trend in 
contemporary economies. Computers, automation, biotechnology, digital communication, 
arising from new materials and new ways of managing production systems redesign relations 
between countries and nations, but also the social relations of production. The economy 
moves to a swiftness and agility of communication in a society predominantly of financial 
speculation. Productivity growth is extraordinary, the production scales reach new 
horizons and generate large market areas (macromercados), redefined the global competition 
that is now shaken by financial instability, the work of this interference speculative 
financial relations, as occurred in the bubble housing market in the USA and as in Europe 
and a possible fragmentation of the European Common Market.

The concept of globalization is deepening the process of internationalization, 
concentration and centralization of capital has remained. Financial flows materialize the 
"globalization of capital" through the technological innovations that make the financial 
markets do not close even a second. Transnational corporations and oligopolistic advanced 
and highly globalized economy, accelerated mergers and acquisitions of local companies.
The composition of large markets negatively influenced the organization of workers, 
fragmenting and destabilizing, more flexible and relocating precariously hand labor, 
industrial plants can be installed where the weight of organizational workers is smaller 
or nonexistent. Factories and manufacturing sectors are closed desempregando thousands of 
workers in a region, and shortly open in places where there are more lucrative advantages 
for the enterprise. The world of work is so hard hit by these innovations and the 
neoliberal adjustment policies. The productive restructuring promoted this model destroys 
jobs, streamlining and further degrades the employment contracts and plays an increasing 
share of workers in the informal economy and poor labor relations. Recently, it was 
reported that over 50 million people do not use the financial system, and because most of 
these do not have job stability to the point of a checking account and keep your monthly 
costs.

Globalization continues to restrict the room for maneuver of national states, even with 
concussions occurred in the past 6 years. The European Community has the classical 
postulates of the IMF with its cost containment measures that directly impact social 
demands, as we see occur in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and others.
After nearly two decades, the countries of Latin America and Brazil, still affected by 
this process. In Brazil, the managements beautified the "small wave" of the world crisis 
came here through clientelistic practices disguised welfare that the race to the bottom 
that the maintenance of the Real Plan caused. Million Brazilians were dismissed to be 
rehired with salaries below what they earned; factories were closed in traditional 
industrial regions, to be erected in regions with higher tax incentives and labor-cheaper 
labor. In this sense, many entrepreneurs are inspiring the Chinese model, which offers a 
production with great technological appeal combined with a workforce highly skilled but 
extremely cheap, thanks to a totalitarian regime that ensures absolute control of the 
population.

International crisis, BRICS (country bloc formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South 
Africa, so-called "emerging") has secured some influence, mainly because they have makeup 
positively the social miseries of their societies, such as advertisements massive as being 
"successful" in times of crises. With the same proposals that gave strength to the Real 
Plan, the negative impacts on society are beginning to appear, the inflation rate was so 
far about "control", is coming back, increase market prices. And even recently taking the 
direction of the WTO (see text above), the impacts will remain the same these 19 years: 
favoritism of speculative sectors and entrepreneurs, fadando most people paid the accounts 
of adventures social, political and economic initiatives that have exclusive commitment to 
their dominant partners worldwide.
It kept monetary policy based on maintaining high interest rates, stimulates the uptake of 
volatile and speculative capital sterile and contributes nothing constructive to implement 
infrastructure and generate jobs. It is illusory to see investment in the World Cup and 
the Olympics as steps in this direction, since they are mainly aimed at meeting the 
business sectors and very little reversed the population, unlike the disguised 
advertisements would have us believe. More severe are those facilities that cater to big 
business and push the initiative of small and medium size into the abyss of default and 
bankruptcy. The high interest rates undermine economic growth, harming the ability to tax 
collection, and helps to deteriorating public finances.

To be Continued ...